Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/13

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Photoshop 7.0 for Mac OS
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:01:31 -0500

Wait...Am I missing something here? Isn't that $799 upgrade price the
price for the entire suite? I paid something like $149 for the upgrade
for Photoshop - I don't need all the other programs.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 10:46 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Photoshop 7.0 for Mac OS


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
>
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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) 

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