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[–] 61 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This comic is so old that at some point someone added Rage Comic faces on top of it, and that on itself must had happened more than 15 years ago.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Aww man - I just found out that one of the hospitals I work for has an active license for WinZip...

    In the scale of dumb things to waste money on, WinZip is about as low as it gets (esp. in healthcare!), but still - it's not like the poor bastards had any to begin with!

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  • [+] 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    In b4 the "my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year" comments.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    But comment was not in before the 3 billion comment?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (25 children)

    Do people even still need to use WinRAR? I mean, the rar format isn't even that prevalent anymore, not even for piracy stuff.....

    It was useful 20 years ago, but like, most OS have native support for it now, making it even further useless to download a WinRAR.

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  • [+] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)
  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yeah I thought everyone used that. Why bother with Winrar?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I think it’s mostly out of spite.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    It's what I used for an extremely long time, so i just sort of.. kept using it. I've only recently swapped to 7-Zip. I think the only feature it has that 7-Zip doesn't is making part files? But I could be wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    part files is what made WinRAR so popular with the piracy community. Especially back in the before times, when you were direct downloading and an internect hiccup would cause a download to fail/restart. Being able to download a thing in smaller parts, only having to restart smaller chunks instead of the whole, and then assembling the whole build as one.... that's what made WinRAR useful....

    Compression was nice and all too, but self executing part assembly was the standout feature. Again, rendered useless when download managers are built into modern broswers. You can retry a direct download without having to restart the whole file.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Aren't part files useless nowdays? We have better connections and download managers that can restart the download where you left it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Which OS has native rar support?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    In ancient times, 2010, I actually bought Winrar. I wanted to support the developer. Even back then as a child, I found it so cool that someone would give me a very useful tool like this for free, with an infinite free trial. And then I found out about FOSS, after that my mind was blown.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago*

    Rocket jump made a whole skit about this exact thing.

    https://youtu.be/lX_pF03vCSU?is=G75-A5rJfu_hIqN2

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Thank you WinRar for all your years of service. I eventually bought you, because of your value as a product, but to make an arrangement like ours, possible for other companies and group to try. Here's the product, if you like it, give me some money. Fairest deal you'll ever make.

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  • CEO: Holy fuck, those are numbers?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure this guy makes a fuck ton off winRar

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yep, it's kind of a racket. The license popup is there to let people know that, hey, technically you have to buy this... but they don't care if Joe Blow buys it, it's free for you, you single-serve mother fucker. A company, though? A company has to buy a copy for every user, and that adds up.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    It also acts as a training system so that workers are more familiar with it already, when they have to use to at work. It adds value to their product that everyone is familiar with it already so companies don't have to train them to use it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    After using winrar for years (after using rar years before that... not sure if it's the same company), I finally bought to copies a few years back. One for myself, one as a Christmas gift to a friend.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    rar and winrar are from the same dude (Roshal ARchive, he named it after himself) and his brother handles the business side of things, been this way since the 90s. I THINK they're still the owners of it. But these days, the company is registered in Germany and the legal representatives are actually some Turkish guys. I suspect it's because they founded the company in Germany but live in Russia themselves and perhaps Germany requires legal representatives to be residents? Anyway the company's been the main distributor since like 2002 so at the very least it's still the same company it was 24 years ago.

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