RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Brett Glass]

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