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A bug saved the company

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379 points ingve | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 09:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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musicale ◴[26 Aug 25 06:36 UTC] No.45023030[source]▶
It's sad that the more generous, user-friendly trial policy led to worse sales. ;-(
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AceJohnny2 ◴[26 Aug 25 06:41 UTC] No.45023063[source]▶
it is the unfortunate truth of the world. It's why I just roll my eyes when I see comments like "nagging reminders mean I'll never buy your product!" Those were probably never going to be customers anyway, they're just finding ways to justify it to themselves.
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1. Ekaros ◴[26 Aug 25 06:59 UTC] No.45023174[source]▶
I still have not gotten around to buying WinRaR. On other hand if it stopped working I would probably install something else.
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2. AceJohnny2 ◴[26 Aug 25 07:55 UTC] No.45023552[source]▶
QED
3. 1970-01-01 ◴[26 Aug 25 21:11 UTC] No.45032385[source]▶
30 year non-paying customer of WinRAR here. I really don't think anything would have changed if I spent some money on it 30 years ago. In fact, way back then, I was correctly afraid of someone sniffing or leaking my credit card info. Today, I'm afraid to buy it because everything is getting AI baked into it. I'm switching back to PKZIP if that happens.