Hello!
And that has proven to be a huge misjudgment.
Which didn't entirely depend on us. We're a young organization, we depend on lots of external influences. You going and pointing fingers, without trying to understand, that there were reasons to behave in that way, isn't constructive.
Could be. But then, I'm probably interested in different types of problems than you. And I'm not sure you've considered this problem in the same way that I have (I'd like to modify the compressed files "in place", though that short description doesn't really capture the solution).
This is entirely off-topic, and could be continued in wikitech-l, if you're really eager to tell how you modify compressed files "in place". ;-)
Cheers, Domas