Eugene Roshal
Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, romanized: Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal) is a Russian software engineer.
Eugene Roshal | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 March 1972 |
| Alma mater | South Ural State University (former Chelsaid SRS Technical University), Faculty of Electronics |
| Occupation | Computer Programmer |
| Known for | RAR, WinRAR |
Career
Roshal is best known as the developer of:
- RAR file format (1993)
- WinRAR file archiver (1995)
- FAR file manager (1996)
The RAR compression algorithm is officially owned by his elder brother Alexander,[1] because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."[2]
gollark: Server bans are also IP-based, apparently.
gollark: Also the thing where if you interact with a problem in any way you immediately become ethically responsible for it.
gollark: In any case, I think it's a good *description* of part of human behavior, because people often really like motivated reasoning.
gollark: Well, John Searle's Chinese Room Experiment proved that no computer could understand Chinese, meaning they can't be sentient. Since humans are implemented in physics, like computers, we are also computers, and so not sentient. QED.
gollark: I assume they have a workaround for the finals and you can delegate someone else to get the plotter.
References
- win.rar GmbH. "RAR and WinRAR END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA)". RARLAB.
The author and holder of the copyright of the software is Alexander L. Roshal. [...] Neither RAR binary code, WinRAR binary code, UnRAR source or UnRAR binary code may be used or reverse engineered to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary, without written permission.
- "Google Groups". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
Further reading
- Biography and product timeline based on The Compression Project web page: Russian language interview with E. Roshal accessed 12 January 2010 (and verified by personal email exchange with him in 2011).
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