----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: GIMP question
>> >> Consider that those of us who buy the software are subsidising the 98% of >> the users who are >> stealing it. > > I believe that if that was anywhere near a realistic figure, even Adobe would > have figured out > that it was better business sense to reduce the price dramatically. I dunno Mike, we live in a world where someone will break your car window to steal a couple of dollars in loose change that you keep for parking money. I don't think it matters where they price it, people will steal what they think they can get away with, and for some reason, even generally honest people have a liberal view of software piracy. Scott kind of summed it up with the "it's too expensive for me to buy, so since I wouldn't be buying it, I'm not hurting them by stealing it" theory. I'm wondering if I could get a Mercedes Benz that way. A friend of mine taught Photoshop classes for several years at one of our community colleges. I don't recall the precise number he told me for the % of pirated programs, but it was very high, well over three quarters. From what Sandy tells us, now that the Chinese are starting to industrialize, and ripping the program off in large numbers, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the number was close to 90%. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
