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24 of the best free alternatives to the most popular paid software
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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
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It is not free (which is the main goal of this list) or open source.
https://alternativeto.net/software/winrar/about/
Oh yeah. I forget it's not free after using it for almost 3 decades without paying for it...
I know, it loses on a technicality.
Aside from the comma splice, did you mean 'loses' or 'loosens'?
My bad. It's lose, as in "not win". In this case, "it does not earn a place on the list due to a technicality". The technicality, being an infinite free trial does not truly count in the spirit of being free.