Legit Software Spells Bankruptcy:
I still find it hard to wrap my mind around the concept of paying for software, but I’m trying. The only software I ever really purchased (i.e. not from a some guy in a dark alley): win95, WarCraft II, Duke Nukem 3D, win98SE, Office 2000 Standard, Wolfenstein 3D (yes the OLD one), Civilization II: Call To Power — in that order.
Today the thought popped into my head that perhaps I should go about this whole business by trying to think of software as the tools in my garage, or the appliances in my house. What’s that honey, you want me to rennovate the kitchen this weekend? Ok, I’ll need to get a new saw, and a router. In that sense, the next time I think: “Hey! I’d like to be able to do _____”, I’ll say to myself: “I’ll need to buy that _____ software program for it.”
That’s fine until you do a price-check though. Photoshop might very well be every bit as important in producing my photographs as my camera is, but my red-meat-eating, beer-drinking, car-crazy neanderthal brain is just never going to let me fork out $900 for a that little plastic disc — esp. when I know I’ll have to spend that same amount on the next version. I really don’t mind paying a couple of dollars for the programs that I use, but we’re not talking shoes here, I’m not Carrie Bradshaw, and I ain’t bending over!
