Pirated Software usage

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I have the answer to that, I only eat expensive Swiss made rice sold as "Genuine Chinese fake product".

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I see what you're saying but for two of the products you mentioned there are free opensource alternatives: like Open Office and Ubuntu, Debian etc

At the end of the day it's a business look at Apple and how restrictive and well controlled they are, it still doesn't stop people from buying them.

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i tried open office, its crap.

newer versions might be better though.

my office was free and i am happy

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If you need those features for personal use, then you should use "The GIMP" and "Inkscape" (similar to Photoshop and Illustrator).

So even if you are from a poor country and the Adobe CS costs 1 million year of your salary of coconut picker, you have access to similar features for free.

And please to the ignorants, do not go "it's not the same", etc... Photoshop and the Gimp are both tools . You can go very very advance with The GIMP and have many similar concepts (layers, filters, etc...).

For the losers who are going to mention that Photoshop is much better, I would say the day you can do that we can talk about switching to photoshop:

So although I admire your "non complying" philosophy, I think it's not justified in that topic.

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Open Office has improved a lot as with anything opensource you need to get involved, whether that's feedback or if you have any development skills and free time. A lot of companies are moving towards opensource I use it here everyday the only commercial software I use is to simulate user experience so it has to be like for like to recreate problems

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Thanks for this post Kani

Really useful to me too

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Thats not true.

Why do people pirate music when its only 59p-99p per song???

cheers

SC

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I have no first hand experience?

I have a Honours degree in Multimedia technology, I have a Master in Creative Software Technologies, I have a diploma from a College of Arts in creative design. Prior to that I have obtained a diploma of Communication through medias with merits.

I have years of experiences in Photoshop, the Gimp, Illustrator, Inkscape, etc...

On top of that I have years of Linux/windows experience, doing student jobs fixing computers, helping other students, etc...

I also self though myself from libraries Linux...

So yes, maybe I have no "first hand experience"?

By the way you can run the latest versions of Linux on a very very weak computer.

But I am sorry to contradict your victim way of life.

I should have said that everyone without a 2000USD computer is screwed in life, that libraries are outdated and for idiots, and that you have no chance in the workplace if you have ever used Open Office.

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Good luck, you can only find a job with the French Assembly:

The French National Assembly already switched all its PCs to Ubuntu in 2007,

http://www.switched.com/2008/01/30/f...dows-to-linux/

But I am sorry, I did not mean to contradict you, I almost forgot that it's impossible to find a job with Linux!!

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there will always be people who refuse to buy whatever the cost. For joe bloggs in the street if the product was at realistic prices i am 1000000% sure they would buy it rather than pissing about trying to get cracks and keys to work and messing with registry or replacing exe files.

a specific example : for gps maps i can download the files and have it running on my device in 20 mins, if i get it from garmin its over 3 hours, wonder why more people are turning to copy maps?

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I tried Microsoft 95, it's crap.

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Because it's still too much?

taking the higher end of the range, .99/song. A CD, back in the day would cost what, 15-20? and had what, 15-20 tracks, on average (I've actually never bought a CD, so I really have no idea)?

That's the same price per track, but you don't actually get any physical media for it. The distribution gets to benefit from an non-diminishable product, effectively infinite supply. Doesn't take more than Econ 101 to work out how the demand and equilibrium price would follow...

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now now, dont muddy the waters, it was last year and it was crap

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Buying mp3's online is cheaper than buying cd's or vinyl in majority of cases.

I think a Ferrari's are too expensive.........but that does not justify me stealing one.

cheers

SC

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I hear what you are saying, however in this case most people I deal with on a day to day base use the CS suite package and the Esko artwork stuff and all the Harlequin adaptions you can eat, the colormanagment the workflows and and and. Normally I would be provided by the company I work for with all the tools needed, however I am on my own at the moment and still have to be top of the game, even more now that CS 6 is rearing it's ugly head, when somebody comes to me with a Photoshop problem in FLexo I can not say: "use GIMP" don't work like that and I do not command the 50- odd thousand needed to be kitted out.

So I crack what I can, buy what I can, beg, steal, wheedle the rest.

By the way, was the guy using fingerpaints to do the terminator'

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Alas, while I use Ubuntu on some of my computers, I need windows on others, as certain stuff I use for work only runs under Windows (and, in some cases, only under W98!)

Tom

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Here another one who has never paid a penny for software, there's an open source application for almost anything I need. My OH has never complained about not being able to understand or use Libre Office, and she has not formal IT education.

Regarding pirated software: there's people making a living out of it, it's fair that if you use it you pay for it. There's software that is very expensive, BUT it is mostly targeted to enterprises and large organisations that are able to pay and profit from it.

My PC runs Linux Mint which is particularly easy to use.

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Look I am also missing the point:

"This took about an hour to draw, with a tablet and GIMP."

That guy clearly missed an hour of his life! There is no way he/she will find any job of Graphic designer or illustrator with those skills!

How terrible is to do that:

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There are plenty of jobs with software companies using linux, we use linux here for the majority of the machines and this is a global company.

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Well, mp3 sound quality is crap (even at 320 kbps), so it should be cheaper!

FLAC is another matter.

Tom