The WinRAR Approach

Re:The WinRAR Approach by fortran77 on Saturday May 24, 2025 @10:43PM (#44085150)

There are some clues:

https://x.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/1703723906945691890

Most of their revenue comes from corporate licenses.

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Re:The WinRAR Approach by badsectoracula on Sunday May 25, 2025 @03:53AM (#44086280)

I find it amusing that, of all things, WinRAR has a community manager and said community manager has fully embraced the meme culture - and there is even merchandise[0] for it.

[0] https://in.tern.et/collections/winrar (linked by the official twitter)

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Re:The WinRAR Approach by thenthenthen on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:40AM (#44087125)

Ha that messenger bag is great

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Re:The WinRAR Approach by rs186 on Sunday May 25, 2025 @08:24AM (#44087318)

I don't understand why companies pay for those licenses -- what are the use cases where you have to use WinRAR instead of 7-Zip or something else?

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Re:The WinRAR Approach by justsomehnguy on Sunday May 25, 2025 @12:39PM (#44088977)

I've encountered at least a couple of 'it's free/Russian/doesn't have support' explanations from people on the web.

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Re:The WinRAR Approach by SSLy on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:10PM (#44092154)

WinRAR compression winow is more ergonomic for certain workflows

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