Phil Katz

Phil Katz
Phil Katz

Phillip Walter Katz was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the Zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit between System Enhancement Associates (SEA) and Katz's company, PKWARE, Inc., was widely publicized in the BBS community in the late 1980s. Phil Katz's software business was very successful, but he struggled with social isolation and chronic alcoholism in the last years of his life.

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Male
Date of Birth
November 3rd, 1962
Age
64
Birth Place
United States of America, Wisconsin
Date of Death
April 14th, 2000
Died Aged
37
Star Sign
Scorpio
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