That's interesting, I had no idea.
However, I'm not sure how useful these might be outside of a business setting.
pretty much all linux stuff uses tarballs or something like that, compiled stuff generally needs data integrity and encryption so you can confirm the file/installation package is the one you intended to download or whatever rather than some malware. modt installers for windows is really just a non-zip-compressed-archive with a small applet on top to handle decompression and registry changes/etc.
its true for the common consumer they wont need alternative compression algorithms that much, but if you regularly transfer large folders of files you may want to get 7zip
