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Originally Posted by MiK546 View Post
Just use wine, it's fully open source and it runs windows applications like you would use a native application of your OS.
Yes I know.
But the initial problem stays the same: You need to jump through proprietary hoops (the Windows binary) just to get a simple zip archive. There is simply no good reason to download a file this way.
I don't like wine. From a technical point of view it's a great project and I hold the developers in high esteem, but the reasons that make it necessary are symptoms of a twisted software ecosystem that I don't want to support. (I know this may sound weird to some people.)
 

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