For realz

What a legend. Fun fact. My friend and I bought WinZip in 1995. We split the $30. They sent us a floppy disk in the mail 😅

Eugene Roshal built the RAR format in 1993, and the name is just Roshal Archive. The copyright sits with his older brother Alexander so Eugene could stay focused on writing code. Worthy of a zap.

I paid for WinRAR ages ago.

I bet many companies using it were somehow legally bind to pay the licence even if not technically enforced. So he might have done decent money anyway, and let's be honest, if you would have to pay after 40 days, almost nobody would use it, so this might have been the most genius marketing strategy.

We can't even zap Linus Torvalds 🐧

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