• Rolder@reddthat.comEnglish
    40·
    2 years ago

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

    • sethboy66@kbin.social
      98·
      2 years 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.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years 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.