They should sell a t-shirt that says “I never paid for WinRAR and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
I’d buy one.
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They should also make a shirt that says, “I did buy WinRAR and I also bought this shirt” to really corner the market on WinRAR-related apparel.
I like it!!
"I paid for WinRAR" with a Mister Moneybags kinda character saying it or something. That would be fun.
Can I get an indefinitely fully-functional trial version of the bag first?
I actually really like winrar. Is it my format of choice? No, there's open free alternatives. But it was a legit better product developed by like one guy that they then proceeded to give free access to with a license that incentivises paying them for their work and has probably raked in insane sums from corporations over the years. It's what happens when you have a Microsoft like idea without the endless greed to sprawl into a billion dollar company.
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You've never paid for WinRAR because you're cheap. I've never paid for WinRAR because I know 7-Zip exists.
We are not the same.
Tbh I never found out about 7zip until like when I was 30. And I'm 33 now xd. I used WinRAR for years.
And I will say, 7zip is much better. No offense to WinRAR. I got much respect for WinRAR.
Hella respect for this move, and i like the look of these. I just wish it had come at a time before I was concerned about the price of everything that I need to survive sky rocketing. Would have purchased 2 years ago.
I believe they're re releasing these from ~2 years ago lol. I've definitely seen these before, I don't remember when, it was certainly more than a few months back.
For that price, does it compress anything you put in the bag?
Yeah that’s called a bag of holding and it would be worth 1000x that. Hell I’d probably save up all my Pennie’s for that.
People are making fun of it in the comments, but i ordered one on restock day and I'm excited!
Libre software selling whatever they can is good for maintaining development.
If the Linux kernel ever changed to AGPLv3 I would for sure buy one GNU/Linux stable release each year to make up for corporations that would ban Linux from their network due to AGPL3 legal obligations.
corporations that would ban Linux from their network
You can't change the license retroactively. Corporations would likely hard-fork the kernel at the last GPL2 commit and move it to a restricted but compliant access model like Red Hat did.
You can change the license moving forward though it takes a tremendous amount of effort.
Only rich companies have dedicated full time kernel developers. The vast majority literally take full advantage of the fact that the kernel is free (gratis). And any changes they make to the GPL2 kernel is still subject to open source disclosure.
I believe Torvalds has publicly stated that he wouldn't support a move to GPL3, let alone AGPL.
Prob those companies will go back to windows server or freebsd lol.
For the sake of basic security, there should be a lot more corporate adoption of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Company networks would be a lot more secure than using Linux due to Linux's schizophrenic nature. Ask a full time BSD sysadmin their view on Linux.
Honest question: to what are you referring by "Linux’s schizophrenic nature"?
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TIL they have a Linux version of WinRAR
Missed opportunity to call it LinRar
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It should absolutely come with a free copy of WinRAR.
Technically everything comes with a free copy of WinRAR
This actually looks like a really nice bag though lol I might actually buy this if it were a bit cheaper
Its stupid.
There is no usability or design, it's a box on a rope. They didn't even try.
I'm troubled by that literal brick of leaf cards
tar -xfvz
-f needs to be the last argument here as it expects the file name correctly after
I bought it decades ago, but lost my product key. 😞
Oh it's not a joke.
My reaction to this whole year tbh
I bought WinRAR, for a pretty specific reason: It can handle Japanese locale. The assorted games, patches, manga, and so forth couldn't be handled by 7zip/PeaZip at the time.
The answer to that question: "by never buying a WinRAR bag?"
The varsity jacket looks like a 6th-grader designed it.
Yeah... I'd buy some of this stuff to be ironic, but it doesn't look very good 🤷♂️
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Tarrrrrr... Gz
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