the duke wrote:
ZMan ZMan
wrote:
the duke wrote:
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1) use tar.gz format, not Zip, as it is proprietary and deprecated by
GNU.
for tar.zg you can do it using cygwin, or any DOS port of gtar you can
find.
nope.
i'm not gonna use cygwin even though i have it installed. (i won't even
install WinACE or ala, even though it have .tgz support out of the box)
i'm gonna use Zip as long as i'm on windos as i know that free (as both
in freedom, and in free beer) implementations of it for free OSes do
exist.
well, gnu deprecate the usage of prop. OSes at all, may they tell you
to reject some of my translations because of this ?
you know that _Winzip_ is a _shareware_, it is not free. you don't seem
to know that Lempel-Ziv is copyrighted. And you also don't seem to know
that some GNU/Linux distributions might not include a zip utility. only
a gzip utility. we don't use it to make Stallman happy, we use it to
make the package accessible for as much people as possible. we prefer
not using Zip like we prefer not using MS Doc format. I won't throw
away translations that someone will send me in DOC format, but I will
be forced to copy them to HTML without the DOC formatting, and reformat
the whole document. That's a lot of work just like opening every ZIP
you send and resend it as TAR.GZ, so that everyone can enjoy it.
It's about sharing, not about being a zealot.
i don't like using prop. software.
but i feel no shame making a temporal use of the like which have free
& compatible counterparts, like zip/unzip.
(anyway on windos i only use WinRAR, but as RAR isn't free and has no
open-source compressor (though it do have an open-source decompressor), i don't
use RAR when i want full compatibility with others, but ZIP)
i know not much about the LZ (c)opyright, but the fact is that there
are free implementations of zip, maybe like lame for mp3... and as i'm
not an advocate i don't have a clue about it's legality.
when i'm on linux, which is where i prefer to be, i use only or almost
only free software (my ads-blocking software isn't free (...yet
searching a free alternate for some time now), and so is my 56K modem
driver (but as i'm on adsl since 04/2001, i don't install it, as i
don't use it)).
i won't be caught sending a file in a prop. format, like M$ DOC (when
it's worth reading of course... i'm not talking here about jokes ! ;))
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for any reason. because when i give something, i wish that it'd be
useful to the recipient ! (whatever the conditions are at the one's
side...)
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