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Other than the oppressive trademark law how isn't it bzip3?


Because it's not version 3.0 of bzip, but an entirely different program.


bzip2 isn't compatible with bzip, and the current maintainer of bzip2 made neither bzip nor bzip2.


Julian Seward created both bzip and bzip2.


Kamila Szewczyk created bzip3




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