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Re: Do you still pay for software?
de Mr Big & Busy (formerly Franklin) 04/15/2006 12:28
> "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>>> I'm particularly keen to speak to people, preferably in the
>>> UK, who never pay for software and run a completely 'free'
>>> set-up (not necessarily including the operating system).
>>
>> Impossible to avoid payment, unless you support piracy.
>>
>> M$ still did a fine job with WinXP, notably the multi-lingual
>> support and AppLocale. Also, Window$ still have the best
>> games....
On 14 Apr 2006, Maynard Man<mighty@hammers.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I agree.
> I find freeware is aimed to do one function, which is why I end
> up using 2 or more freeware products to achieve my end result.
> This can be time consuming and laborious.
Time consuming and laborious might be slighty overstating the extra
work involved.
> Payware products tend
> to do this in one sweep. I have a combination of free and pay
> because I like to do things once rather than mess around. I have
> a good social life, so I don't have the time to sit in front of
> my pc all the evening and weekends, I'm just not that boring.
Heh heh! Is that what you say? Zzzzzzzzzzzz. :-)
> Although I'm like most people and will take something for
> nothing where I can, I also don't have an issue paying for
> something that saves me time. I would also suggest that some
> people are just tight fisted. It hurts them to put their hand in
> their pockets. You only have to read some of the signatures here
> with things like "no payware or shareware for me please". You
> can tell a lot about a poster from their signature!
Check my sig. Heh!
your, Mr Big
(Speak to my secretary if you want to comment.)
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I don't use freeware because I am very rich and very busy with my
social life. I don't waste time posting to newsgroups either.