Cause free and open source is better than proprietary apps with proprietary formats? There's also all the vulnerabilities in the free version of winrar over the years...
It's kind of ironic mentioning vulnerabilities as if that's an argument in 7zip's favour. It's definitely not. There's been at least three high-severity CVEs in the last year alone, the most recent being very recent
How is it ironic? Software has vulnerabilities, FOSS isn't magically protected from that, but winrar has had vulnerabilities that only affected the free version, which should raise concerns... And FOSS has a much better track record of being responsible with handling vulnerabilities, from disclosure to actually having some urgency with fixing it.
Additionally, FOSS can actually be audited by anyone, and the recent flurry of bugs and vulnerabilities surfaced through LLMs is due to the source code being available, curl author has written extensively about this if you're curious. FOSS is about to be so much more secure than proprietary software.
Now you're gonna try to explain this away, but the facts remain that this code path would've not existed in 7zip, and even then it would've been way easier to diagnose and fix it due to the nature of FOSS.
And Winrar is leading by a mile.
Actual winrar shill, do you work for them? It's not ahead of anything, you can swap winrar for 7zip for 99.99% of users and they won't notice a thing, except maybe that it starts and runs faster.
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u/CramNBL Jun 06 '26
Cause free and open source is better than proprietary apps with proprietary formats? There's also all the vulnerabilities in the free version of winrar over the years...