• Rolder@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I mean, does paying for winrar somehow guarantee that it will keep being actively developed?

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      1 year ago

      No, the fact that businesses pay for it for something of that guarantee despite there being free peer-alternatives means that it is a better guarantee.

      When you see businesses electing to pay for something despite free alternatives, there is likely a reason (or a number of them). I’ve seen free tools go from active maintaining to completely dead in a single update due to the work needed to get it back up and operating with new environment-side changes.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve seen free tools go from active maintaining to completely dead in a single update

        And we’ve all seen companies go out of business overnight. There’s no more guarantee that WinRAR will still be around tomorrow than there is for 7z.