RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"
Brett Glass
brett at lariat.org
Fri Jun 27 12:36:07 PDT 2003
At 02:08 AM 6/27/2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> bzip2 - could be reimplemented
>
>Or ignored. The Unisys patent which caused it to be written has
>expired (Welcome home, compress, we missed you!).
bzip is actually better, because of the way it reorders files.
>> gzip - nasty, but re-implementable. Or we move to a non-GNU zip format.
>
>Compress, again.
Can't bzip handle gzip archives?
--Brett
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