PKZips Phil Katz dead

I just received this notice from a friend of mine. This was the first notice I had seen. Anyone know any more of the details? This appears to be a revisionist report with regard to why Pkzip was created. I still have some of the email (somewhere) that circulated from both Katz and the creators of ARC when the creators of ARC sued Katz for IIRC having something to do with PKARC not being 100% compatible with the widely used ARC compressions scheme used. ------------------- PKzip Creator dies . . . "Phillip W. Katz died of complications from chronic alcoholism, according to the Milwaulkee medical examiner’s records. Katz’s file-compression software is used around the world. 'In early days, compression was all done with software because there was no hardware to do this stuff,' said computer science professor Leonard Levine at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 'So Katz put together a program called PKZip, the Phil Katz zip program. ' The compression software made communication between computers faster and less expensive." Of all the 'programs' on the planet, PKUnZip has to be one of the more well-known binaries .