[w1ntermute]

Are you willing to donate money to your favorite open source software so they can afford the bandwidth? If not, don't complain about having to spend a few more seconds decompressing the latest release (which you're getting for free).

[alecco]

As a programmer, I would rather work on a patent-unencumbered and open source compression algorithm solving exactly this problem. Perhaps investing months of my own unpaid time on it. HINT