Like today, March 10, 1972 was born Eugene Roshal (pronounced Eugene Rosal), the Russian creator of the RAR compression algorithm (RoshalARchiver) offered to us by WinRAR, the popular MS Windows archiving and data compression program in RAR format.
In chronological order the creations of the developer:
- 1993: created the RAR file format
- 1995: WinRAR files archiver
- 1996: FAR file manager
The owner of the compression algorithm is his brother Alexander, because Eugenios, as he stated, did not have time to deal with software development and copyright at the same time.
Besides its popularity among Windows users for its simplicity of use (in later versions) it is well known as the first software given with a free 40-day trial, the expiration of which does not affect its functionality!
Practically the user can uses for personal use for life and this to her knowledge companys as a response to piracy, and in fact with the aim, as it states, to protect users from using a pirated and possibly dangerous for them version.
So let us wholeheartedly wish him happy and creative birthday!
Encouragement: do not remove the software because it is Russian :)
And for those who have not done so yet:
open the program, go to Help -> About and click on the points we show you:
ok it's now
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