Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quite so. Software is expensive to write and requires great skill. Much software has many thousands of man-hours in it, and of course each evolution contains more. The fact that such IP is so easy to steal is a great shame. Frank On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 03:46 pm, Eric Welch wrote: > Adobe's applications cost a lot of money to produce. Notwithstanding > double profits this past quarter, they deserve every penny they get. > That's how it keeps getting better and better. For that $779 upgrade, > one is getting almost $2,000 worth of software. And if you buy them > outright, they now cost a lot less - about $1,200. > > Our cameras are expensive, the top tool in the wold for working with > photos, and among the top in Web and Print design and production are > real tools too. Amateurs can use an almost as capable program (and one > that fits all their needs) for $99 with Photoshop Elements. If you > don't need InDesign or GoLive or Illustrator, then you probably would > do just fine with that. Or go really cheap and you can get GIMP for > Linux, UNIX, Windows and OS X. But you get what you pay for. > > On Dec 13, 2003, at 6:58 AM, Félix López de Maturana wrote: > >> >>> Holy smokes the upgrade cost $740 I hope it includes a better sense >>> of >>> humor and a lower pulse rate. >> >> Mark >> >> I do not approve piracy but I can understand it when someone is making >> profit far beyond industrial or commercial common sense just for the >> fact >> he's got a so called standard. If they have got a standard they will >> sell it >> as expensive as the point where customers doubt in reject it, not a $ >> less. >> They argue too and mistake lost profit with loss. If someone has to >> stop >> piracy the same has to stop any monopoly. >> >> Felix >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > http://www.jphotog.com > > "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still > putting on its shoes." > -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html