Hello Gary - At 10:19 AM 11/1/02 -0800, you wrote:
>The fact that I had to do more than just download pkzip 2.5 DOS >helped fix the time period. Anchored it in time. OK, makes sense. >My understanding was that he had >bought out his mother's interest some time before (1997?). I didn't hear about that. >I have no information regarding who was running the company by >that point. Had I been Phil, I would have wanted to focus on the >technologies and let someone else handle the running of PkWare, >but that only establishes my own viewpoint. I have the distinct impression the alcohol was making the decisions. >I had a friend who met Phil once, [...] >We never had any >correspondence, but when I heard he had died I actually wept. Katz used to post public messages and more so during his court case with SEA. I appreciate the contribution all archive software made when we had limited storage capacities. PKware was one of many who made contributions. I cannot say that I was moved to tears when Katz ended his own life. He was one of many programmers whose efforts I appreciated. No more, no less. [...] >I'm glad he lived. I'm sorry he died. His life enriched the >whole of mankind. The people who discovered efficient methods (algorithms) for compression; Huffman, Liv-Zempel-Welch, Shan-Fano, and others enriched Phil's life. Without their contributions there would have been no PKzip. Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
