by Destroyerzero » Sat May 17, 08 10:23 pm
I can answer this...
When 7z originally started, Microsoft was up in arms that they were copying "proprietary" formats. They got in their case because zip was a universal format, but rar was proprietary, so to save themselves they made another format.
7zip holds more integrity and its a much more stable algorithm. I switched to 7z when microsoft changed winrar so many times that my old RAR files would not decompress..and worse yet, when they did, I would get data and logic errors on such files as well....This is the reason why WinRar has been rereleased so many times.
Many in the server world were so fed up with the unreliability with Microsoft that they switched over to Linux for much greater security and changed their compression programs around.
Edit: Before you even reply...I don't care much about Eugene Roshal either...
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Destroyerzero on Sat May 17, 08 10:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.