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PKWare Zips to Growth

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the old-school-compression-algorithms dept.

Rob Kennedy writes "The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a story about PKWare's new business plan. It talks about the investment group that bought the company after founder Phil Katz's death in 2000, and the plan for PKWare to produce what president and COO Timothy H. Kennedy (no relation) calls 'the next generation of zip' by adding various security features."

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  1. Re:Cool moment. by yatest5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    And all the members of the panel looked at one another and then started doing the Wayne's World bow and chanting, "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

    Fucking nerds. Jesus.

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  2. Yes by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 0, Troll

    I cannot remember where I read this -- I'll post a link if I remember in a reply -- but the new zip format is totally integrated into the internet. You cannot zip an encrypted file without a registered internet connection active, and when it does so, it communicates with a master server and, with encryption, charges you a miniscule fee. It's free for other uses, however, if registered.

    However, the new format supposedly uses a gargantuan amount of CPU power and memory to decompress, but can shrink files to much less than a standard zip.

    This is why we should support 7zip instead -- better compression, but it's open source.