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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PK361.EXE
Message-ID: <761@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 88 12:05:18 GMT
References: <3656@bsu-cs.UUCP> 
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article  wacey@paul.rutgers.edu ( ) writes:
...
...It's amazing how hysterical some people become. In the case of
...ARC and PKARC , PKARC was almost an exact duplicate of ARC.

Exact duplicate?  Surely, you jest!  The compression algorithms are all
public domain.  The user interfaces are different and the speeds are different.

...I wonder how many people who are screaming that PKARC got raked
...actual write commercial software. If you spent one or two years
...on R+D, building a cutomer base and support only to have someone
...duplicate your product how would you feel. 

SEA didn't write ARC as a commercial product, but as shareware.  They
"built their customer base" via the generosity of BBSes!

...If the author of PKARC
...just wanted a faster ARC he should have talked to SEA about having
...them release it.

My understanding is that at one point, SEA said that there would be no
more upgrading of ARC.

...It is alot easier to duplicate a program than to think it up in
...the first place.

No argument there.  What do you think of Vern Buerg's versons of ARC?
 ...
...iain wacey

Pete