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Originally posted by slant eyes
i guess there's 2 sides to the story. i think it's wrong to charge that much for an os that would be obsolete in like 1 year. but at the same time, programmers and developers are demanding lots of pay.
sucks that microsoft has created a monopoly and thus is making a killing off of this. i think that they would have a better reputation if they actually reimbursed people who did purchase crappy software *cough* win ME *cough*.
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If you were a programmer, wouldn't you want to make more money too?
Here's another thought about the Microsoft monopoly... It takes a seller and a buyer. We're to blame for the success of Microsoft. We could have bought OS/2, Mac, or BeOS. In fact, Linux existed at the same time as OS/2 and NT 3.51.
Microsoft solved a problem at a time when users needed widespread compatibility and a fair price (IBM was the giant over-priced villain with crappy software in the 80s-90s).
Consumers "vote" with their dollars. Stealing MS software doesn't get rid of Windows - it simply propogates it and takes away from growing the market share of alternatives.