From: "LA Walsh" <law@tlinx.org>
To: "'mirrors'" <mirrors@kernel.org>,
"'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:17:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001a01c2ef2e$701f9fd0$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030319213917.GB1030@mars.ravnborg.org>
'Sam Ravnborg' wrote:
> It is a convinient feature that I can download the kernel now and then
> when at work (no linux) - and it makes it a bit simpler to use
> an archiver that has native support for the format used.
> Winzip, being the only allowed archiver at work, does not
> have native bz2 support.
----
I asked WinZip for plugin support so users could add
arbitrary compressions formats (I specifically mentioned 'bz2').
I even offered to do it myself if they wanted to give me NDA access
to the code.... and was told that they have thought about
extensibility but had no plans to support it in the forseeable
future. Consider it a benefit of a closed source product.
They control your file format, they control your business and personal decisions...nice.
Anyone up for writing a Free version of Winzip to replace
the "cooperative" Winzip authors' version (was was up for making
minor mod's, but not starting from scratch).
-linda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 20:19 H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-19 20:39 ` wind
2003-03-19 20:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-19 20:57 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-03-19 21:12 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-03-19 21:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-19 21:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-03-19 22:06 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-03-19 23:46 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-20 8:27 ` Thierry Vignaud
2003-03-20 8:40 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2003-03-20 15:37 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-03-20 11:23 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " Bruno Cornec
2003-03-20 0:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-20 17:53 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-20 17:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-20 18:31 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-20 21:14 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-25 15:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-03-26 12:57 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-20 14:03 ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-19 21:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-03-20 22:17 ` LA Walsh [this message]
2003-03-20 23:30 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-21 0:09 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-21 4:42 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-21 7:24 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-19 22:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <1048114783.5033.70.camel@tombigbee.neark.org>
2003-03-19 23:29 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-20 3:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-20 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-19 22:44 ` DervishD
2003-03-20 0:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-20 9:55 ` John Bradford
2003-03-20 13:10 ` John Jasen
2003-03-20 13:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20 10:03 ` Erik Hensema
2003-03-20 16:32 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-20 16:42 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-20 17:51 ` Eli Carter
2003-03-20 18:04 ` Thomas Duffy
2003-03-25 16:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-03-25 16:25 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-25 16:34 ` Stephen Frost
2003-03-25 20:26 ` Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org aka BogoMips Marc Giger
2003-03-20 18:10 ` Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-24 2:12 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-24 2:24 ` Miles Bader
2003-03-24 2:40 ` nick
2003-03-24 11:33 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-20 17:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-20 18:12 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-03-20 17:48 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-20 17:57 ` Dana Lacoste
2003-03-20 18:24 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-20 18:34 ` [kernel.org mirrors] " Ryan Finnie
2003-03-20 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <20030320165007$503c@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030320180014$0e31@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030320182006$46bf@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 18:44 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-03-20 19:52 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-23 23:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-03-20 21:54 Hank Leininger
2003-03-20 22:13 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-20 23:14 ` Hank Leininger
2003-03-20 23:34 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-21 6:26 ` Ville Herva
2003-03-21 6:38 ` Ville Herva
2003-03-21 7:26 ` Hank Leininger
2003-03-20 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <200303211124.h2LBO6mU011361@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
2003-03-21 11:28 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-03-21 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-21 19:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
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