From "PC Magazine" dated Nov 17, 1998 an ad for PC Connection was selling
Win98 Upg for 89.95, NT 4.0 Workstation for 259.95. If you were right
shouldn't the price be much higher now, 7 years later?
And if you look at HW, most hasn't really changed. Sound cards, modems,
NICs, power supplies.... Not much R&D goes into it other then how to make
the parts cheaper.
So if you don't like how they do piracy checks how would you go about
preventing piracy?
----- Original Message -----
From: FORC5
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Re: does this look legit
timeline may be off but when MB's were $500 dos was $30
I do not believe in piracy, but when one buys something it should be theirs,
not leased to the whim of who knows who. Lets see, you paid good money but
since who changed your HW too much you may now go and by more, thank you. MS
creates as much piracy as they seem to think they are preventing IMO.
fp
At 11:37 AM 9/20/2005, Eli Allen Poked the stick with:
You can't pirate HW for one and two I'd like to see proof of your price
increases in software. Seems about the same level to me. How much was
Windows 95 when it first came out?
Eli
----- Original Message ----- From: FORC5
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Re: does this look legit
works for me >:-}
I just mean HW prices come down and sw prices go up, something wrong there
IMO
fp
At 10:53 AM 9/20/2005, warpmedia Poked the stick with:
Oh you mean you want an OS that's like 10% of PC price rather than half? =)
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