I originally made RAR Expander simply because I needed a good RAR expansion application myself, but since then I have spent a lot of time on providing preferences, help files, GUI design, proper error handling, making it faster etc. to make it useful to others as well. And then there is the additional work that comes with making it available to others: answering support requests and handling bug reports. While I'm not expecting to get rich from RAR Expander, I was hoping the donations would pay for the occassional pizza and coke for RAR Expander programming sessions. :) Alas, so far only a few people (less than 5!) have made a donation, so I'm hoping that in the future more users of RAR Expander will recognize this plea: if you like RAR Expander and have some use for it, please consider making a donation!
How much you should donate is really up to you to decide! I find it hard to put a price on software. Most commercial software is priced like a tool: like a screwdriver, Apple's iWork costs $79 no matter how much you use it. But for users, a program is often more like a service than a tool: if you only occassionally need RAR Expander's help to access the contents of an archive, it's value to you may be not much more than $5; if you need to often expand RAR archives, RAR Expander may be worth more to you. One user for example posted a feature request related to batch processing of multiple RAR archives at once which he found missing in other RAR expansions programs on the mac, I told him to take a look at the example scripts provided with RAR Expander which already do more or less what he asked for, and he immediately made a donation of $20! (Thanks a lot Anders!) This is why RAR Expander is donationware: you can decide what is a fair amount to donate depending on how much you use the application etc. But please do consider making a donation!
If you donate, you will not only be supporting RAR Expander: a small part of your donation will go to SourceForge, a site that provides valuable services to the open source development community at large.
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