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Originally posted by Patchou
Just because Norton does not develop its softwares for free... I won't start a debate on piracy, I don't say that all my softwares are legally installed on my computer but for $30 softwares, you should be a little helpful. Anyway... if you got your copy for free, then you can't complain... the same thing applies for Linux
I think this is depends -- I will buy if I need use a software everyday. But for some kind of expensive software, like adobe pagemaker or microsoft office, I use that maybe 10 times per year, maybe less, why should I pay for that price?
A chinese software made a anti-virus called "Kingsoft Anti-Virus", they only sell it at 5 USD because they think they can sell it out for at least 3 million copies and 15million USD is fair for develop an anti-virus software. I do not know how many Norton sold -- I believe more than 3 million copies.