> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/06/27 Fri PM 02:59:41 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: GIMP question > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mike wilson" > Subject: Re: GIMP question > > > > >> > >> Consider that those of us who buy the software are subsidising the 98% of > >> the users who are > >> stealing it. > > > > I believe that if that was anywhere near a realistic figure, even Adobe > > would have figured out > > that it was better business sense to reduce the price dramatically. > > I dunno Mike, we live in a world where someone will break your car window to > steal a couple of > dollars in loose change that you keep for parking money. I don't think it > matters where they > price it, people will steal what they think they can get away with, and for > some reason, even > generally honest people have a liberal view of software piracy.
Agreed. But the triangle of price/ease of theft/chance of getting caught is heavily balanced at the moment towards theft. The price is high, the ease is, er, easy and the chance of being caught (and punished) is negligible. Reduse the price and the other two sides become less attractive. If Adobe was _giving_ it away there would still be some people who would steal it but I think the balance can only shift to Adobe's advantage with a reduced price. > Scott kind of summed it up with the "it's too expensive for me to buy, so > since I wouldn't be > buying it, I'm not hurting them by stealing it" theory. I'm wondering if I > could get a Mercedes > Benz that way. > > A friend of mine taught Photoshop classes for several years at one of our > community colleges. I > don't recall the precise number he told me for the % of pirated programs, but > it was very high, > well over three quarters. From what Sandy tells us, now that the Chinese are > starting to > industrialize, and ripping the program off in large numbers, it wouldn't > surprise me at all if > the number was close to 90%. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
