On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:57:06 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: > Problem with RAR is it's not open-source, while Infozip, tgz and bzip2 are. > That's why the open-source Unixes don't use RAR. Infozip unzip will unzip > PKZIP archives.
and Glenn McCorkle responded: > I don't understand. Why should that be a "problem" as you call it? > Arachne is not open-source. Does anyone here recommend that we not use it for that reason? > Personally, I don't care one way or another. If I find that a particualr program is worth recomending, I do so. (regardless of whether or not it might be "open source") Being closed-source is a problem for inclusion with Linux and (Free, Net or Open)BSD distributions, and even FreeDOS. Actually, I use DOS Lynx386 (open-source) much more than Arachne (not open-source), because DOS Lynx386 is much faster, is less crash-prone and now supports https. I look forward to trying the open-source Mozilla, when I get more things set up.
