Re: 7-ZIP for Mac OSX ???

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Jul 3, 11:37 am, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-kix-this>
wrote:
>   To: Michael J. Mahon
>   Re: Re: 7-ZIP for Mac OSX ???
>   By: Michael J. Mahon to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Jul 02 2009 11:26 am
>
>  > Occasional specialized filetypes have special redundancies that
>  > justify particular compressions (JPEG, MP3, etc.), but virtually
>  > everything else can be sufficiently compressed with a standard
>  > app--and the world is much better with fewer "standards".  ;-)
>  >
>  > The last thing we need is a bunch of people writing their own
>  > peculiar data compression programs for public distribution.
>
> Yeah, because if no one didn't try to innovate and do something better than the
> existing standard, we could all still be using ARC to archive our files. Damn
> you Phil Katz for writing your own peculiar data compression program for public
> distribution that eventually became a popular standard.
>
> </sarcasm>

And now that we're free of all that patent/proprietary malarky, are
you advocating that we go back ?

Matt