an interesting read...

[flow``]

http://forum.arstechnica.com/forum/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002497.html

to give credit where its due, i saw it at ngemu under off-topic i think

anyway, it brings up a lot of good points :]

 

[blizz]

how much of MS Office does a typical user use anyway?

isn't that what MS-Works is meant to work with?

it raises some good points, the problem is a lot of the software, that is heavily warezed (3D Max, Photoshop, Maya, XP, Office) they're all aimed at professional use, there warez can increase market penetration beyond the sales, for example how many students would be able to learn how to use Maya if it hadn't been for warez it saves business' training costs (Let alone they normally require it anyway)

It's a fine balance in the end.

 

[flow``]

i had never realized the statement where "larger corps (ms, discreet, adobe)" actually [in a way] encouraged warez, to get their stuff on people's computers vs's competators software.