Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adobe's applications cost a lot of money to produce. Notwithstanding double profits this past quarter, they deserve every penny they get. That's how it keeps getting better and better. For that $779 upgrade, one is getting almost $2,000 worth of software. And if you buy them outright, they now cost a lot less - about $1,200. Our cameras are expensive, the top tool in the wold for working with photos, and among the top in Web and Print design and production are real tools too. Amateurs can use an almost as capable program (and one that fits all their needs) for $99 with Photoshop Elements. If you don't need InDesign or GoLive or Illustrator, then you probably would do just fine with that. Or go really cheap and you can get GIMP for Linux, UNIX, Windows and OS X. But you get what you pay for. On Dec 13, 2003, at 6:58 AM, Félix López de Maturana wrote: > >> Holy smokes the upgrade cost $740 I hope it includes a better sense of >> humor and a lower pulse rate. > > Mark > > I do not approve piracy but I can understand it when someone is making > profit far beyond industrial or commercial common sense just for the > fact > he's got a so called standard. If they have got a standard they will > sell it > as expensive as the point where customers doubt in reject it, not a $ > less. > They argue too and mistake lost profit with loss. If someone has to > stop > piracy the same has to stop any monopoly. > > Felix > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." - -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html