Three formats? Why?

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Published on 2010-03-14T12:37:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 12:45 UTC
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I needed to download the Ruby Source recently from here and it says, "available in three formats" which are .tar.bz2, .tar.gz and .zip. Is there any reason that we need all three formats? At least on Linux and OSX I can do any of the three easily. On Windows, only zip is built-in, I think. Is there anything behind these preferences or is this just a religious battle?

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