It was a bit rude as written, and that's part of the problem with email in
general. Sometimes terse statements sound worse than the intended message
was to be delivered.
While I am really happy with the work that this free software team has been
doing, and I appreciate and make good use of their labor, the original post
did have a good point: why introduce a new zip scheme that would not be
available to most people? gzip is open source and widely deployed. Was
there a particularly strong reason for using bzip2 over gzip?
David
> It always amazes me when people using free software are rude to the
> folks who are doing the work. Your message was impolite, and you were
> too lazy to go find bzip2, thereby wasting everyone else's time.
>
> You can get bzip2 at
> http://ma.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/04/15/892661723.html
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