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I remember the name Phil Katz from "PKZIP" back in the BBS days. I had no idea he had such an unhappy story!

The wikipedia page covers it briefly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz

I can recommend that you watch "BBS: The Documentary", they cover the arc wars as well, there's also this document: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/S...

I guess at least his initials will forever be immortalized in the first 2 bytes of all ZIP files (and as the article said, JARs, APKs, Office file formats, what else...)

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