I remember reading that the creators of the ARC format sued Phil Katz for essentially taking their original source code and rebranding it PKARC (with assembly optimizations). They claim [1] that Katz did essentially the same thing with PKZIP.
Can anyone verify these claims? I always thought it was an injustice that the original authors were treated poorly by the BBS community and treated like a big company despite just being run from home.
Can anyone verify these claims? I always thought it was an injustice that the original authors were treated poorly by the BBS community and treated like a big company despite just being run from home.
[1] http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html