Manually Open Compressed Files

Update (Nov. 4, 2007):
From another post of mine, “There is now a UI GPL utility for OS X that not only opens .rar files but also those pesky Stuffit files for which you thought you had to go through an intense sign-up (to download Stuffit). It’s called Unarchiver¹ and it’s apparently “completely” Libre”.
<http://mauroandres.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/decompress-rar-files-on-os-x-for-free/²>

The following instructions work for various extensions such as ¨.tgz¨ and I believe ¨.tar.gz¨.

“Free” as in “Liberty” Wireless Support

If recently found this article titled, The Battle for Wireless Network Drivers by Jem Matzan, on the state of wireless support on the part of manufacturers towards Free (GPL’d or BSD’d) operating systems.

It describes the process of reverse engineering and the difficulties involved with the development of firmware, lobbying for documentation and/or the freedom to redistribute firmware, and source code. It also describes the insistence of some manufacturers on license agreements (such as NDAs [non-disclosure agreements]).

In an unexpected fashion, the article ultimately identifies a lack of communication between developers contributing to the lack of wireless support, with