Robert Holleyman of the Business Software Alliance says “Few people would find it acceptable for a quarter of consumers to steal, rather than buy, their new car from a dealer’s forecourt.” What a tosser. Few people would find it acceptable for their car to unexpectedly not work on French roads or to suddenly stall on a motorway because they had filled it up with petrol from Esso rather than BP. When software works properly, as advertised then the software manufacturers will be entitled to take the moral high-ground.
I recently needed to edit together some multi-channel audio files. Several programs claimed to support the format but fortunately I decided to try those programs out by downloading them via BitTorrent. Mark of the Unicorn would have charged me £319 to discover that their Digital Performer software can’t import 6-channel AIFF files despite their claims that “you get unlimited tracks, unlimited undo, support for surround sound.” Buying Bias Peak would have been another £73 wasted, and so on. In the end I figured out a way to do it with Apple’s £20 QuickTime Pro. OK, Ok, I’ll pay for it now… sigh… why do I start out writing these things?
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