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Infima - a fraud thats refusing to die?

Posted by Sachin Garg on 10th January 2007 | Permanent Link

So I came across this press release by Infima guys about version 2.0 release of their archiver.

For those of you who missed the earlier story (go read it first), Infima 1.0 was nothing more than all the major command-line compression tools combined together under a buggy GUI, a massive copyright/gpl violation.

However, one change they made in July 2006 was that the archiver is now ‘freeware’. I wonder how that makes all this less of a fraud, or even legal.