The sad life and death of Phil Katz, creator of the Zip file compression program

I don’t think anyone blames end users, most of whom weren’t following the story anyway, too much for using the software. What I don’t get is the need to glorify any of this. Katz did not do a noble thing or even a particularly impressive thing. Through an accident of history the format he created to weasel out of the ARC settlement outlasted him and his software.

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