Umm... bzip2 is open source and freely available to anyone (I compiled
the binaries I use myself).
David Wall wrote:
>
> 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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