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Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/February 14

Today in 1989 the .ZIP file format was released into the public domain. After a lawsuit against Phil Katz as a third party developer of an (improved) implementation of the then predominant ARC format, his better and free ZIP format supplanted ARC and sealed the end of the plaintiff company SEA.

The specification is freely available.
The specification is freely available.


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