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Ive never paid for M$ Office
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I did in the mid-90s when our family pooled our money together to buy a Pentium Pro. Yes, we all had to pitch in our savings, around $500 each, and we all had to agree on it. Of course the 3 children did. But I was the only one to pay my own money to upgrade it. Had to get that 3dfx graphics card! And the USB card. And the ZIP100 drive. And a 10GB PATA EIDE HDD.
Should have pirated it
No way my parents would have allowed that. And the pretext for the computer was primarily for homework. But also I had always had an interest in computers, and would spend as many study halls as possible in the computer lab, and was taking the only programming course offered (Turbo Pascal). Eventually two of the other lab assistants and I discussed forming a computer club, and one of my best friends and 2 of the juniors who were also lab assistants successfully proposed it to the student body. We eventually got a grant to put a couple computers in the library, convert one of the typing labs into computers, and put mini-labs in the English classrooms for essays, then helped wire all the CAT cables to the Novell network. Good times. Got to get out of class to do it, but I always started my Algebra I/II homework in class while sitting in the back and listening to my Discman. That nerdy young attractive female teacher knew I was reading ahead anyway, so it was OK if I missed a few classes.
Still rocking Windows 7 and Adobe CS5.
A few months ago, my untouched, unchanged Illustrator installation started automatically closing itself (not crashing, closing; demanding that I save my work before it closes and not giving me any other options) exactly two minutes after launching it.
I’m angry about that. As a pirate, they can apparently alter my shit after the fact even when no changes have been made.
I’m angry about that. As a pirate, they can apparently alter my shit after the fact even when no changes have been made.
Years ago it used to be a running joke for retards to permanently lease out furniture rather than buying it. They were laughed at because they essentially paid 5 figures worth over the several years they leased said furniture.
Now a days it is mandated by subscriptions to things that only needed to be purchased once.
Now a days it is mandated by subscriptions to things that only needed to be purchased once.
Yeah, sorry to say this my brothers in Christ but the reason subscription services are a thing, aside from the obvious money grab by big corpos, is because people want continuous updates for their software and that costs money. If you had to pay upfront for a service with continuous updates you would be paying an enormous amount of money. A lifetime netflix subscription would cost the user over a grand upfront.
Toast message
Or use use open source alternatives
This is only a problem if you weren't paying attention anything for the last 25 years and so never realised that paying for software, at all, is a scam.
Also cars now are locking already integrated physical features behind subscription services.
Its just pathetic that the world is turning into this, and people are accepting it.