Or Allume, or whatever the fuck you are called. Take StuffIt, the expander, the compressor, the stuffer, the ass reamer, whatever products you have, pack them into a nice .sit file and cram them. I am through dealing with StuffIt files. They cause me nothing but pain and aggravation and there is no justification for their use, unless you happen to be Jonathan Kahn or a member of the Kahn family. And all seven of you mac users out there who can’t compress files as .zip so that the rest of the world can actually open said files, well…you can cram it too, because I am not dealing with your bull-.sit any longer.
Clearly I am not alone in my hatred of StuffIt. PeterB over at Tea Leaves puts it all into a nice, controlled, and admirably lucid argument. Unlike me, he is able to present his points with slightly fewer juvenile StuffIt puns and less coarse language.
Furthermore, each successive edition of StuffIt has become more and more facehuggerware. If you go to Allume’s web site and try to download the “free” edition of StuffIt, you’ll end up downloading the time-limited demo of their full product, which nobody in the entire world actually wants. Basically, Allume deserves some sort of Annoyance Award for managing to craft an app distribution mechanism that is actually worse than RealPlayer’s. Ask yourself: what conceivable justification does one have for installing an extension to run a user-level uncompression routine?
In more nerdless straight talk, what Peter is saying is that StuffIt is a pile of shit that should make you mad. Stop using StuffIt, and whenever someone sends you a file with a .sit extension, send it back with a .fu extension.
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