Useless splintering - it's not just for RSS
Via Scoble comes this link to a story about ZIP splintering. On tthe zip side, there's at least commercial interest to explain what's going on; in the RSS world, it's a bunch of ill behaved children unable to share their toys in the sandbox.
On the other hand, end users aren't even going to notice the various RSS imbrogolios; two versions of ZIP are going to be noticed as soon as someone sends a zip file that they can't decompress.
Comments
Regarding .zip...
[Andres Valloud] August 4, 2003 14:18:01.314
It's time to move over and discard zip's poor compression and feature set. Check out RAR at www.rarlabs.com. And mind you, RAR works essentially everywhere... I have used RAR for archiving purposes since the DOS age. I've never had a single problem with the 50GB++ pile of stuff I have compressed with it. Andres.