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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Useless splintering - it's not just for RSS
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Via Scoble comes this link to a story about ZIP splintering. On tthe zip side, there's at least commercial interest to explain what's going on; in the RSS world, it's a bunch of ill behaved children unable to share their toys in the sandbox.
On the other hand, end users aren't even going to notice the various RSS imbrogolios; two versions of ZIP are going to be noticed as soon as someone sends a zip file that they can't decompress.
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