Yeah, but it was a poster child for nagware. Edit to be fair so did WinRAR, but that sweet sweet compression and multi-volume splitting made it the best tool for those sailing a jolly roger on those slow, stormy seas…
I don’t really have an issue with nagware. You got a powerful, useful piece of software for free. I’m starting to see a lot of comments in this vein on Lemmy. Open Source is fantastic, but it’s also okay to want to get paid for the time and effort put into something.
Thats because winrar is useful.
It’s is not useful. It is fucking great.
Its kind of shit and always has been. Winrar love is pure nostalgia.
Its icon is good I will admit that.
Wait till you learn about 7zip…
7zip didn’t exist when winrar was released… im pretty sure anyway…
Fact check: TRUE
Winrar released April 1995, and 7zip released January 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Yeah there was a time when winrar was basically the best option for zip files it made it easy…
There was Winzip before.
Yeah, but it was a poster child for nagware. Edit to be fair so did WinRAR, but that sweet sweet compression and multi-volume splitting made it the best tool for those sailing a jolly roger on those slow, stormy seas…
I don’t really have an issue with nagware. You got a powerful, useful piece of software for free. I’m starting to see a lot of comments in this vein on Lemmy. Open Source is fantastic, but it’s also okay to want to get paid for the time and effort put into something.