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  • Microsoft employee explains how stolen code is used

    From Sativa GNutella@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 20 12:16:15 2022
    The death of a programmer earns a Microsoft developer around a
    second hand car.

    The dark history of zip compressed files in Windows XP.

    Surrounded by bottles of alcohol and explicit photography a
    compression algorithm programma of .zip architecture was found
    dead, a Microsoft developer comes clean about this incident which
    is one of many.


    https://youtu.be/1sV-3-vPx3I
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  • From Sativa GNutella@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 21 03:41:17 2022
    How Dave Plummer sold a dead programmer his code to Microsoft:

    i'm dave plummer a retired operating

    systems engineer going back to the ms

    dawson windows 95 days and i wrote the

    zip file software that has shipped in

    quite literally a billion copies of

    windows i wrote it at home in my den at

    night sold it to microsoft for inclusion

    in the win 95 plus pack bought a used

    car with the proceeds and then they

    ultimately rolled it into the base

    windows operating system.

    File: The Dark History of Zip Files
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    he was the multi-millionaire software

    visionary that created the zip file

    format still used almost universally to

    this very day

    and now at the age of just 37 phil katz

    was dead

    his life came to an inglorious ending in

    a lonely hotel room somewhere in

    milwaukee county wisconsin he had a home

    nearby and the cops had been summoned to

    it at least once before when neighbors

    had complained of odors insects and mice

    infesting the neighboring luxury

    apartments

    once inside the police had been

    confronted with knee-deep garbage

    decaying food scraps and much more

    when they later found his lifeless body

    slumped against a nightstand in that

    dingy southside hotel room he was still

    cradling an empty bottle of liquor

    a half dozen similar bottles littered

    the room

    he was completely alone now having long

    since been estranged from his family and

    now virtually a stranger to even the

    employees of his own company

    his body could no longer sustain