Don't forget that WinRAR comes from 90s eastern European/xUSSR cultural background, where nobody paid for IP, for something that could be copied. Nobody would use it otherwise. I'm pretty sure even the authors used "pirated" copies of OS/compilers to produce WinRAR.
The WinRAR approach
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#22> If you're familiar with WinRAR, the Windows file compression tool, you'll know where this is going. WinRAR became infamous for offering a "30-day trial" that never actually expired. I remember Paint Shop Pro being even more famous for this. I certainly got to day five hundred and something of the 30 day trial. I seem to remember an interview with the creator where he was grateful even to users that didn't pay becau…
Same for MS-DOS, at least in the early years. Microsoft was completely aware just how often it was pirated, even by businesses, but just cared more about market share.
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#23This basically worked for me as well, forklift on macOS has basically an infinite trial but will constantly ask you to buy it
I just bought it yesterday :D
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#24WinRAR is one of the tools what I'm missing a lot since I've moved to MacOS.
The other one is Total Commander...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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This isn't some fact that is going to appear in the encyclopedia Brittanica. If you actually search for it, you'll find a bunch of content like "if you assume they sell 5 million copies per year at $10 per copy, then they must make $50M/year!!". I won't say it's likely, but a number of times on this very forum I got the inside scoop by asking a question and having someone in the know respond directly to me. Off the t…
Both of them probably lost some hard-to-quantify money when divulging such info, pricing obscurity is a tool many negotiators use, transparency kills such tools, of course when competition forces internal prices to be revealed the dynamics change but in general there is little to gain business wise.
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#26My company doesn't even pay for WinRAR. Their approach is pretty awful, haha.
If you use it or have it installed after 30 days without a buying, your company has violated the terms of the license.
Happens all the time. In the company I used to work at, everyone in the web development team used the obsidian editor. I mentioned multiple times that I don't think it's free for commercial use, no one even bat an eye. I feel like people just don't care, especially if they don't have a stake in the company (which is very understandable but imo still not reasonable).
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#27WinRAR is one of the tools what I'm missing a lot since I've moved to MacOS. The other one is Total Commander...
What do you miss about WinRAR? The ability to view an archive's contents without having to extract it first, and extract individual files? That can be achieved with BetterZip:
BetterZip also comes with a Quick Look plugin.
> The other one is Total Commander...
Maybe check out Transmit by Panic. It's technically a remote file transfer software, but can also be used for the local filesystem.
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#28WinRAR is one of the tools what I'm missing a lot since I've moved to MacOS. The other one is Total Commander...
I had the same thought when i switched to Linux a few years ago - then i realized i can just run them under Wine :-P.
Though over time i switched to using Double Commander, an open source Total Commander clone written in Lazarus / Free Pascal, more than Total Commander itself since it runs natively on Linux and can do things like running programs such as xterm, but i still keep Total Commander installed since it can do some things better (or at least in a more familiar manner).
My default archiver is still WinRAR though.
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#29WinRAR is one of the tools what I'm missing a lot since I've moved to MacOS. The other one is Total Commander...
What do you miss about WinRAR? The ability to view an archive's contents without having to extract it first, and extract individual files? That can be achieved with BetterZip: https://macitbetter.com BetterZip also comes with a Quick Look plugin. > The other one is Total Commander... Maybe check out Transmit by Panic. It's technically a remote file transfer software, but can also be used for the local filesystem. htt…
Cool, I was not aware of BetterZip, looks great!
Re TC: I am using CommanderOne, that one gets close to it. Also using Midnight Commander in the Terminal
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#30WinRAR is one of the tools what I'm missing a lot since I've moved to MacOS. The other one is Total Commander...
I had the same thought when i switched to Linux a few years ago - then i realized i can just run them under Wine :-P. Though over time i switched to using Double Commander, an open source Total Commander clone written in Lazarus / Free Pascal, more than Total Commander itself since it runs natively on Linux and can do things like running programs such as xterm, but i still keep Total Commander installed since it can…
Yeah, DoubleCommander is almost like TC.
I'll look into Vine on MacOS