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Re: [News] Paid-for Software Gradually Becomes Irrelevant

____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 September 2007 17:21 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Do consumers actually purchase software anymore?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Have we reached a point in the computing timeline where it?s no longer
>>| necessary to buy software?
>> `----
>> 
>> http://techlogg.com/content/view/444/31/
>> 
>> Even Microsoft has moved (unsuccessfully and hesitantly) towards ads-funded
>> software. Google reigns that area.
>> 
> 
> Consider that Microsoft have been bundling software for so long that
> even the trolls and shills here claim that Windows is free.  If the
> shills and trolls can be believed, then the populous doesn't expect to
> pay for software.  What better solution, then, than to offer free
> software to them.

I never bought any software. It was bundled. The rest were trial versions anbd
freeware.

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