[nzlug] Linux in NZ District Councils?

[Mark Foster]

For the windows platform,

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Compression_and_Zip_File_Utilities/Jzip.html

Has done me well for quite some time.

But yes, the number of people who use WinZip well after its trial period 
expires, is quite substantial.

(has no relationship to Linux whatsoever, does it...)

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Olwen Williams wrote:

> I had refrained form commenting on this earlier but as WinZIP has been
> raised I will.
> Some years ago I worked for a large corporate, and worked on a product
> that customers used to interface with their systems.  After
> encountering a few problems with other approaches we settled on using
> self-extracting PKZip files for installation (it was DOS-based
> software).
>
> In the IT section is was commonly believed that we had a site license
> for PKZip and the source of the copy we used was the Australian
> mainframe.  But it displayed shareware notices   so I requested a copy
> that did not have those.  I never managed to get one, and it seemed to
> me at the tail-end of the chain as if even is a license had been paid
> for the software still displayed those notices.
>
>
> On 24/01/07, Carlos Hendson <skyclan at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 
>> There are a significant differences between shareware/freeware licensing
>> and GPL and licenses of that nature (open source vs closed source).
>> 
>> In my experience, there are enough companies out there, large and small,
>> that exploit shareware/freeware by downloading and using the software
>> without ever registering it or paying for it (WinZIP being a clear
>> winner).  Which is effectively theft.
>