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Freakonomics seems like a good book. I will pick up a copy of it soon!

Academic versions are also a good way to go for students like me. I just picked up a copy of Visual Studio for about $70 CDN, with the professional version starting at $300 US.

Thank you Robb. That is exactly what happens.

Most of the workforce knows how to use Office and Windows, nothing else. I remember when I went through an employment agency way back in teh days before I started my own gigs. They tested me on XP and Office. That is the standard. That employment agency had copies of the software. Bell Mobility had copies of the software. They have over 16,000 employees cross-country(if I remember correctly). That’s a lot of licenses, and a large corp like that CANNOT be meddled with software piracy allegations. 16,000 X $300 (assumign they got a volume discount) is still a boatload of cash, and this is only 1 Canadian company.

This is a very controversial viewpoint, and i do not know if this is entirely true or not. It’s just one of my conspiracy theories that I come up with!

All that said, I’m very convinced of this… to make something widespread and common it has to be accessible. $1,199 isn’t accessible. The software market is interesting because technically speaking, each additional product stolen does NOT mean reduced inventory or materials, unlike cars or food or anything else… It’s a niche that digital products have, and they should be marketed from a different angle.

The greatest obstacle I see is how much value can be recognized by the public about free software.

let me tell you a true story :

A department store was selling umbrellas for dirt cheap on the 1st floor. They did not sell out as good as they thought. The manager decided to double the price and move it to the second floor. It sold out within days.

If people can get over that factor freeware can become more popular, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.. that’s simply the value system that is instilled in people of our society.