R.I.P. PK

Philippe Caze Phillip Walter Katz

November 3, 1962-April 14, 2000

American. The inventor of the zip format and the Pkarc and PKZIP compression software. founder of the PKWare company.

In the Internet's telephone line era, the transmission of data files is a very annoying problem. File compression is a must-have technique. At that time the monopoly of the compression software is ARC, which is a charge of commercial software. Philippe Caze developed an arc-compatible software called Pkarc, which was released for free and was quickly disseminated. Arc will sue the Philippe Caze and win the court.

The lawsuit prompted Philippe Caze to develop a new ZIP compression format and make the format a free, open -use compression format. the zip format goes beyond arc in compression ratio and compression rate. With the popularity of shareware pkzip and WinZip using this format, the ZIP format became the main standard for Internet compressed files.

PKWare is a company that is worth millions of of dollars. but Philippe Caze is not good at doing business and taking care of his life. He was found dead in his home on April 14, 2000 after drinking an overdose leading to acute splenic hemorrhage.

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"Compression"--a short film recording the battle between Arc and Zip (English)

Http://www.esva.net/~thom/arczip.wmv

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He compresses the data and facilitates the free dissemination of knowledge and information.

And unfortunately compressed the length of his life.

He's not perfect.

But it's still our hero.

His name will always live in every zip file.

R.I.P. PK

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R.I.P. PK