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It's basically force-of-habit. Many of us grew up in the "windows era" where piracy was just the thing that was done. It takes posts such as yours to get peopl
by Kepler-431c 9y ago
It's basically force-of-habit. Many of us grew up in the "windows era" where piracy was just the thing that was done.
It takes posts such as yours to get people to snap out of it.
- PaulHoule 9y agohttps://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-costs-money-here/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-cost... In the Windows culture there is also the MSDN factor where once you get an MSDN subscription you have licenses for an insane number of Microsoft product so your SQL Server and Visual Studio and ... are all covered under one price. You are paying for it, but not for an application at a time, so why go with some vendor that wants more money?
- tedmiston 9y agoAnd for students, MSDNAA covers it all (except Office) for free.