On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:08:00PM -0600, Jonathan Wight wrote: > On 02/22/2001 17:49, "Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:28:04PM -0500, Advertising wrote: > > > > all the problems you describe are the fault of Aladdin and thier > > proprietary crap product and monopolistic practices. > > With all respect, that is nonsense. Any problems are the fault of whoever > originally picked Stuffit for packaging free software. No one is making you > use Stuffit. If you don't like that format then you're free to find > something you do like, reverse engineer it or write your own replacement > from scratch. its true that BenH should not have used .sit, but i was simply explaining why .sit is the way it is. > I doubt that Stuffit 5 was directly targetted to damage MindExpander. > Stuffit 5 used a (at that time) new compression format that broke > compatibility with Stuffit 4 and therefore MindExpander. If you believe that > it was completely intentional then you probably also believe many other > conspiracy theories. stuffit 5 was not only made to damage mindvision, but i am certain the massive changes in the file format were done because they knew thier long proprietary format was cracked. if they mean no harm to mindexpander then they would document thier fileformat. if you really want to find out about the attitude of this company please contact Scott Anguish who runs the OpenStep/MacOSX site stepwise.com. a few years ago he attempted to write a decompression tool for apple's rhapsody OS to extract .sit archives. he will tell you about how cooperative aladdin was about that idea. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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