Tell us all where it is.
"They're so ingrained in the computer world that almost every company in the world has a site license for some sort of software to deal with them"
Having worked with dozens of large Fortune 1000 companies, I can say that is not true.
"PKWare has probably gone to an advertising-supported model for one version of its software in order to get some revenue."
You just contradicted your last statement. If every company has PKZIP, then they already have revenue.
”They're giving you the software for free... “
No, they are not. I and many others paid for it.
Try RTFM, and then make these statements.
“I don't doubt that there is a configuration item somewhere in the PKZIP program where you can turn off automatic file compression of email attachments.” Tell us all where it is.I don't use the program; my statement said that "I don't doubt that there is...", not that I KNEW there was. However, since you asked, I looked at their website http://www.pkware.com/ and retrieved this quote from the information about PKZIP Explorer... "easily toggle on or off automatic zipping of email attachments and configure other PKZIP options from within Microsoft® Outlook® 2000."
"They're so ingrained in the computer world that almost every company in the world has a site license for some sort of software to deal with them" Having worked with dozens of large Fortune 1000 companies, I can say that is not true.I've worked with dozens of companies and never encountered one that didn't have a site license for either WinZip or PKZip or some other program for handling .zip files. A modern company can't do business without some sort of utility for dealing with .zip files.
"PKWare has probably gone to an advertising-supported model for one version of its software in order to get some revenue." You just contradicted your last statement. If every company has PKZIP, then they already have revenue.I didn't say that every company has PKZIP, I said every company has some sort of program for dealing with .zip files. There are many software products that have an ad-supported version that's free and a version with no advertising that you have to pay for. One of the best known is Eudora. There's a freeware version that shows you advertising and a registered version that has no advertising but that you have to pay for. I didn't find anything on the PKWARE site about an ad-supported version but I only gave it a cursory glance.
”They're giving you the software for free... “ No, they are not. I and many others paid for it.I made that statement with the presumption that there was a free ad-supported version of the software in addition to the paid version that you and many others have.
Try RTFM, and then make these statements.And the same should apply to you as well since I was easily able to track down the information that the feature you were grumbling about can be turned off.
Mike