I did both in the past.
And promptly lost the RAR license.
And not feeling so great about wikimedias recent organizational actions.
The world is complicated
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WinRAR got what they needed. You did good.
Wikimedia... Hindsight is a bitch, you either live life not helping places that need it or take chances on helping people you don't know are assholes.
TBF, organizational actions aside, they made a thing, it's pretty damned useful, you can download the thing and keep it forever. I've donated to causes that have done less for me.
It's so crazy to me that a non profit is anti union. Like, I know we live in a capitalist dystopia but I guess I didn't think it was that bad.
I didn't donate this year
Just a heads up, Wikipedia has been operating with huge margins, they're completely safe and do not need donations right now.
can you point me at some data/facts about rhose margins?
Page 3 and 5, while it's unclear the terms of the investments that make up the majority of their assets they still have net assets over 300 Million Dollars and have even been prepaying services far in advance. Their lease liability and accrued expenses are only 500K each and they payed an extra 4.5M to Wikimedia voluntarily last year, it's expected that they could run the site somewhere between 50 to 100 years based on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
This essay is effectively a classic.
Even if it's not necessarily a bad thing for Wikimedia Foundation to have so much income, just a few days ago it's been revealed they have made a contract with a union busting legal agency, since their workers are forming one. In other words, money that people donate for Wikipedia is spent on internal bullshit conflicts by the increasingly insular leadership.
A place I use to work purchased over 1000 licenses, no corporate discount, retail prices over 5 years.
Stupid dev refusing to use anything but winrar, stupid manager not contacting a reseller for a discount.
I've done both. No need to grovel, but you can call me "your excellence"
I donated to wikipedia once and they went after me every year like I had fed an hungry dog.
No, I doesn't got more cookies boy!
I donate to them regularly, or at least I did until I found out they were going to spend my donation on union busting.
Yeah, this is why I stopped donating to them
I donated to them for a few years, $20 a year, so not much. And then one year they sent me an email that was very clearly meant to guilt trip me into thinking I wasn't donating enough to the platform. So I cancelled the contribution instead.
Worst part is they don't even need the money right now but are claiming they do.
I think this was my favorite scene in Barry Lyndon.
Did WinRar ever try to break a union
... like WikiMedia Foundation has. (to be clear)
Kinda pointless to unionize when it's run by two brothers and there are, as far as I know, no other employees.
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