Also programing is a work of someone's mind, and should belong to that person. If I come up with some program (IE.. Windows, Mac, DOS) Why shouldn't I make people pay for the hard work I've done to make the program. What about all the people slaving over a keyboard just to make it easyer on you so you don't have to go learn the langage to make using your computer easyer... Come on, if you think about what these programs are doing and how they make your life easyer. and if you think it's not a big deal then format your hard drive and start making your own program with 0's and 1's and stop complanning about a few $100's which save you 10's of years in programing time, schooling and brain power to do the same thing. I want to see someone flip 1000's of switches on a computer and keep up with me moveing my mouse, or even typing commands on a non-gui os. The only time I think these programs should be free or cheeper is for the people having to learn them to support other people or work for these company. Say I want to work for IBM. Well I would have to spend 1000's to get the software and hardware to learn on and work with so I can have the experiance and know how to work for them... or how about a graphic artest, that great you need like atleast 4 programs to make a great photos but there 1000's each... with out any hardware. company should be helping us out more, so we can know the software before we go work for them and that way be better IT people......
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Also programing is a work of someone's mind, and should belong to that person. If I come up with some program (IE.. Windows, Mac, DOS) Why shouldn't I make people pay for the hard work I've done to make the program. What about all the people slaving over a keyboard just to make it easyer on you so you don't have to go learn the langage to make using your computer easyer... Come on, if you think about what these programs are doing and how they make your life easyer. and if you think it's not a big deal then format your hard drive and start making your own program with 0's and 1's and stop complanning about a few $100's which save you 10's of years in programing time, schooling and brain power to do the same thing. I want to see someone flip 1000's of switches on a computer and keep up with me moveing my mouse, or even typing commands on a non-gui os. The only time I think these programs should be free or cheeper is for the people having to learn them to support other people or work for these company. Say I want to work for IBM. Well I would have to spend 1000's to get the software and hardware to learn on and work with so I can have the experiance and know how to work for them... or how about a graphic artest, that great you need like atleast 4 programs to make a great photos but there 1000's each... with out any hardware. company should be helping us out more, so we can know the software before we go work for them and that way be better IT people......