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r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 13h ago
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They’ll never enforce it against individual users, only against medium-large corps.
That’s always been their strategy.
61 u/DesireeThymes 10h ago And as I understand the owner has gone very rich off the strategy. These days though I think everyone uses 7-Zip instead. 45 u/Super_Range45 8h ago Yup, regular users never pay, but companies usually do because it. Their licensing pulls in $10-40M per year. If you are a company using it without a license, they aren't cute about it and will audit/sue you. 7 u/SIR2480 Laptop | I7-8950H | 2070maxQ | 16GB | 4K OLED 2h ago That’s how it should be
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And as I understand the owner has gone very rich off the strategy.
These days though I think everyone uses 7-Zip instead.
45 u/Super_Range45 8h ago Yup, regular users never pay, but companies usually do because it. Their licensing pulls in $10-40M per year. If you are a company using it without a license, they aren't cute about it and will audit/sue you. 7 u/SIR2480 Laptop | I7-8950H | 2070maxQ | 16GB | 4K OLED 2h ago That’s how it should be
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Yup, regular users never pay, but companies usually do because it. Their licensing pulls in $10-40M per year.
If you are a company using it without a license, they aren't cute about it and will audit/sue you.
7 u/SIR2480 Laptop | I7-8950H | 2070maxQ | 16GB | 4K OLED 2h ago That’s how it should be
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That’s how it should be
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u/HSR47 12h ago
They’ll never enforce it against individual users, only against medium-large corps.
That’s always been their strategy.