The .zip compression format has known remarkable stability and compatibility for many years, but that may soon change. PKWare and WinZip, makers of competing compression and encryption products, are fighting over the .zip standard--which means that .zip archive files created by one program may not be accessible by the other.
This was the only thing that kept people using winzip when winrar gives better compression.
If this happens, then the only thing that will get hurt is the .zip format, nothing more. All this so they can make a few dollars. All they need to do is work together for gods sake.
PKZip didnt release some info to WinZip and now PKZip files cant be read from WinZip. They say they are corrupted but actually just cant be read since WinZip didnt know the some info.
The problem with everyone switching to a different compressing tool is that everyone has to have like 5 "unzippers" on their computers for files received. Thats pretty annoying.
What will happen (and is available now) is someone will come out with one zip (like picozip) that can do all. It will either be legal or illegal, nonetheless, they'll just lose money.
I hardly see things zipped these days, what with high speed and rar.
dodo said The problem with everyone switching to a different compressing tool is that everyone has to have like 5 "unzippers" on their computers for files received. Thats pretty annoying.
~dodo
both WinAce and WinRAR can unzip most common formats. Especially WinRAR, which they update fairly often to handle new compression schemes.
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