I paid for WinZip and for Paint Shop Pro and used them a bunch in the late 90s. But I switched to Linux in the early aughts and by then the free software versions had caught up sufficiently that I didn't really need to pay for software for a while.

I do pay for Sublime Text these days.

https://imgur.com/a/DXZI1SJ since xcancel seems to have been killed by x, and the creator for some reason posted it only on X and linkedin.

A couple of years ago I finally bought my WinRAR license and I also asked for a serial to use in DOS RAR, the tool I used as shareware for decades.

Proud to say that by 40 I will be off Windows forever.

Jokes on them, unrar on linux is free.