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by yabudemada 1968 days ago
If you do, please be sure to donate (time or money) to the open source projects to help better them! This is how open source can exceed commercial software. At the very worst case, if the projects tumble there's always a possibility to "fork" as an insurance policy.
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vz8 1968 days ago
We do, and thanks for mentioning it, it's worth bringing up.

We donate to various projects: on Github, FSF, EFF, direct to a developers, and even Patreon in one case.

Autodesk had our money for a while, then we moved to use and support Blender and never looked back.

... we even bought a license to WinRAR, I kid you not.

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MaxBarraclough 1968 days ago
WinRAR isn't Open Source. I'm curious though, why go with rar rather than, say, 7z?
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vz8 1968 days ago
On our devices with Windows, we use the built-in tools, 7-zip and WinRAR (on a single workstation).

Mentioning WinRAR was a bit of a joke.

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