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There are *lots* of alternatives
Better not get too firm, as plenty of alternatives exist. Not to mention that people stupidly flocked to the RAR format, so many people went over to WinRAR anyways . . .

Trust me, people will switch to other stuff quickly - "FREE" was the big selling point of WinZip in the first place. If it goes away, so do most WinZip users.

Not to mention that with modern OSes natively supporting zip (latest versions of Windows, MacOS and Linux all do), the demand for third party programs that open .zip files is already declining.

Lastly, open source projects for decompressing files are becoming more common. A new but promising format is .7z, which is a completely open file format and compresses as well (if not better than) as RAR and ACE. Look forward to seeing more of it in the future.
Posted by: CobraA1   Posted on: 07/18/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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OK, first, how about support for other formats ...  msanto00 | 07/17/05
Agreed  mad.mutt | 07/18/05
why pay when  toxicfreak | 07/18/05
Wot-R-U-talkin-about  Squawkbox | 07/18/05
Maybe he means  voska | 07/18/05
Well "V" he  Squawkbox | 07/18/05
The can expect  voska | 07/19/05
Old Technology  rbrandl@... | 07/18/05
Re: Old Technology  Andylb | 07/18/05
This is why they invented gzip (nt)  Henry Miller | 07/18/05
"Free" trial now times out  rdwhitti | 07/18/05
but what about the other formats?  draqza@... | 07/18/05
Other formats  Andylb | 07/18/05
Free alternatives available - why pay?  klmmicro | 07/18/05
Buying a user base.  Anton Philidor | 07/18/05
Anton, Anton, Anton...  Patrick Jones | 07/18/05
How much zip business?  Anton Philidor | 07/18/05
I know..  Patrick Jones | 07/18/05
"Add to zip" is in the shell.  Anton Philidor | 07/18/05
Thanks..  Patrick Jones | 07/18/05
why do i need winzip? MS has it built in.  Been_Done_Before | 07/18/05
missing the obvious  ChazzMatt | 07/18/05
There are *lots* of alternatives  CobraA1 | 07/18/05
Unzip with cygwin for free!  xkmail | 07/19/05
There's always WinRAR  darrenforster99 | 07/20/05

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