If billion dollar companies can play with numbers, so can I.
Let's see the potential damages done to my unemployed self, had I purchased the products over the past year (on my windows box).
Windows XP Pro: $279.99
Office XP Pro: $147.75
Adobe Photoshop CS: $597.99
MS Visual Studio: $949.99
Nero 6: $84.99
Norton Antivirus 2004: $42.99
Zone Alarm: $34.99
PowerDVD: $59.99
Flash MX: $489.99
Adobe Acrobat: $269.99
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Total: 3116.66
(prices taken from amazon.com)
That price is over 3x what I paid for my computer hardware! Also take into account product updates for software you already legitimately own. I would like to know where these multi-billion dollar companies find students who can afford all this.
Of course I could be using opensource applications for most of these, but then the statistics wouldn't look so great;)
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If billion dollar companies can play with numbers, so can I.
;)
Let's see the potential damages done to my unemployed self, had I purchased the products over the past year (on my windows box).
Windows XP Pro: $279.99
Office XP Pro: $147.75
Adobe Photoshop CS: $597.99
MS Visual Studio: $949.99
Nero 6: $84.99
Norton Antivirus 2004: $42.99
Zone Alarm: $34.99
PowerDVD: $59.99
Flash MX: $489.99
Adobe Acrobat: $269.99
=======
Total: 3116.66
(prices taken from amazon.com)
That price is over 3x what I paid for my computer hardware! Also take into account product updates for software you already legitimately own. I would like to know where these multi-billion dollar companies find students who can afford all this.
Of course I could be using opensource applications for most of these, but then the statistics wouldn't look so great