To a phone conversation between Jason Scott and Mr. Than he could reasonably expect to respond to.ĭuring this time, Phil Katz created a new compression program, which was named for himīy his friend Bob Mahoney (sysop of EXEC-PC BBS), who suggested "ZIP", because (according Him as the network spread more debates, contentions, and rumor regarding the legal case Ironically, Henderson's own work in architecting and improving Fidonet were used against Intention of bankrupting the company in legal fees. SUE, and blatant violation of SEA's claims to ownership with the Calls were made for protests, petitions, renaming The debate that raged over this event spread to many parts of Fidonet and on all sorts Publicized and covered of any up to that time (and years beyond). This was one of the first times thatĪ member of the BBS community sued another member, and it was certainly the most "look and feel", and direct lifting of ARC code. In April of 1988, SEA sued Phil Katz and PKWARE for trademark violation, use of the ARC
What happened next was disputed by various parties (and the many versions and debates areĬovered in the files below), but the upshot was that Phil Katz released PKARC, a faster Because of the ease of useĪnd availability of this program, it quickly became the defacto standard for file archives
#Pkware compression code#
Was written at SEA, and the source code was freely available. The controversy raged around a program called ARC, released around 1985, which wouldĬompress and store groups of files as one file, making it easier and quicker toĭownload programs and support files at once off of BBSes. Work with Fidonet, including organizing the IFNA (International Fidonet Association) and Thom Henderson had previously been known for his Others were involved (in the case of folks like Andy Foray, quite intimately), the lines The major players were Thom Henderson of SEA, and Phil Katz of PKWARE.
Memories of the event are long in many minds, even if all the details are fuzzy. Network of Fidonet, the information about the case was spread far and wide, and the Intellectual property issues to the forefront of the culture. The landscape of the BBS forever, bringing in laws, trademark/copyright protection, and PKWARE (Phil Katz Software) legal case changed The SEA (System Enhancement Associates) vs. It quickly expanded into one of the largest controversies the BBS world ever saw. In the late 1980s a fight broke out between System Enhancement Associates (SEA), maker of the ARC program, and PKWARE (Phil Katz Software) over the rights of a program named ARC (or PKARC). The BBS Documentary Library CONTROVERSY: LAWSUITS: SEA vs.
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