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@nixCraft I bought a WinRAR license. I used the RAR feature of scripting language to run when the self-extracting executable was run and the "signature" of the self extracting RAR. Things common in the last century, now would trigger all the possible alarms π @nixCraft yeah, that's pretty high, cause 7zip is free, not riddled with ads and works just fine. @lastofavari @nixCraft And even windows (yea i know ;) ) now supports .7zip, .rar and gzip/bzip2/xy/Zstandard/uncompressed tarballs natively, too. @lastofavari @nixCraft Not just fine, LZMA2 used by 7zip is one of the best compression algorithms there is (speed and compression wise). It's also made by the author of 7zip, Igor Pavlov. @nixCraft@mastodon.social I MEAN @nixCraft Isn't their whole shtick about not enforcing the license is to get you familiar so at offices they have to buy winrar or they'll be hit with a lawsuit? Because a whole office is much more profitable and realistic to sue then some random guy on another continent. |
@nixCraft I have actually bought a winrar license. Many years ago though π