Yes, but who would want golive?

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Luckily most of my software is Free these days.  (because I dropped the yoke of Windows. )

I have actually purchased some Linux software though.  I had to have a copy of Quake 3 for Linux and MATLAB (which work kindly paid for.)

euh. It was me who said that! I dont like golive, let it be known! .


At least you're being honest with it webby. I'm glad you bought a copy of it though. On talking about illegal softwares i'm pretty sure companies let them around to establish a sort of standard amongst younger people that will grow up and buy the software later on. Or that's my take on why you find some many illegal versions of software around ( and no one really taking action on it. RIAA suing people for a song, but you wont really hear of adobe, discreet, macromedia....suing  internet users of having their programs illegally!)

Anyway, open source is always good, i always try to find an open source alternative before anything else...

The software houses are far more interested in companies, but never the less it has been know for individuals to be caught, though more often by their ISP.

Microsoft are still going on a rampage of finding companies with pirate software, suing them, and publicly naming them in the press!  Good on them I say.  It is surprising how many companies are based on illegal software, more startling how many computer retail stores have internal networks with pirate Op Systems.

Mind you, the RIAA may seem to take stupid steps, but at least they are doing something.  I am more against the stupid remarks made by the press regarding the cost of the music industry.  A local paper had a full page article on a 12 year old who the RIAA were going after for downloading music.  The journalists arguement was that it only costs about 20p (about 34 cents) to make.

Some of these people seem to be oblivious to actual development costs.  The same arguement surrounded computer games.  A journalist remembering how you could buy computer games on tape for £4.99, (but seemingly not remembering that premium releases from Ocean started life at £24.99) arguing against paying £30 - £40 for a game on his console because the disk only cost 50p to make.  Forgetting that game budgets now escallate into millions of dollars.

Doesn't matter what you look at, music, application software, games, films on VHS or DVD - the cost is always huge, a lot bigger than most people imagine, and it is about time that people started to reliase that dispite the general feeling that downloading a pirate MP3, film or software item is not a big problem, it really is no different from going into town and stealing someone's car!

Sorry about the long post folks, but just thought I'd get it all out in the open.  Buy the software, because in the long run, the major reason for high software prices is to compensate for the amount of pirate versions.

Well yes, i know the BSA stops by our school from times to times to check every license .


Devellopment costs are still a fraction of the profits made by video game companies. You have to remember that even though it costs several millions to make a mainstream game (often by getting licenses to incorporate real life companies, famous actors....) it still gets in return more than what the average movie makes in theaters.

And i never meant to be understood as favorizing anything illegal that happens on/off the net.

lol notepad.. great to read that.. thought I was the only one still using notepad modifying stuff. Somehow I hardly use anything like dreamweaver and so on. but I have to admit I sometimes move from notepad to wordpad becuz wordpad maintains the layout of coding.  another nice tool is ultraedit since it has some nice and easy to use  features without having to study it for a long time.

And about illegal stuff, just don't do it cuz you're simply stealing. Guess why they call it illegal uh. People often asked me to support them on their k@z@@ problems. They all know now I don't support it. Not only becuz it;s mostly about downloading illegal stuff but also becuz it's a major virus spreader. And coming back on my previous post, tested illegal software that doesn't do it for me, gets deleted. If its ok, I buy.

Well, I don't support the record industry.  Indie all the way.  

Seriously, it's more fun to buy directly from bands that aren't on big labels because you pay less (at most $10 for a CD) and you get to meet some cool people.