Mr Bigman
05-15-08, 02:56 PM
Back in an earlier time around the 286 days, most if not all software did use licences.
I think all software should be open source from games to office suites like some are already.
This is good to combat piracy.
We didn't have greed or piracy back in 1988 cuz people like to share software and it was called shareware.
believe it or not but doom was free at one time if you can find it and it was legal free.
It boils down to windows or linux, you pay for windows or get linus free.
The noob world should have been more exposed to freebies like linux but instead, they were the suckers who spent all that money on software cuz someone told them they needed it.
I know software has become more complex over the years but hey why pay 700 bucks for office when you can get the free version of office through open source.
My theory is MS should of gave it away and charged people for support for it or setup help but instead they charge people for it and charge people for support. Thats greed and open source isn't greedy or selfesh.
It seems osftware is more costly than the unit its installed in, it shouldn't be that way.
I do pay for software, but i rather not cuz of all the money i spent on the hardware.
Back in the day believe it or not but the people who made the hardware did make software too that outfitted with the hardware like what Apple does today.
ASUS actually had a small office suite back in the early 90's on win3.1 but didn't last long.
Thank god we do get some free software with the devices we buy like flatbed scanners and printers and some games do still come with gpu's but not like it once did when i bought my Voodoo 3 that had a few decent games and sblive which had soem good titles.
I think all software should be open source from games to office suites like some are already.
This is good to combat piracy.
We didn't have greed or piracy back in 1988 cuz people like to share software and it was called shareware.
believe it or not but doom was free at one time if you can find it and it was legal free.
It boils down to windows or linux, you pay for windows or get linus free.
The noob world should have been more exposed to freebies like linux but instead, they were the suckers who spent all that money on software cuz someone told them they needed it.
I know software has become more complex over the years but hey why pay 700 bucks for office when you can get the free version of office through open source.
My theory is MS should of gave it away and charged people for support for it or setup help but instead they charge people for it and charge people for support. Thats greed and open source isn't greedy or selfesh.
It seems osftware is more costly than the unit its installed in, it shouldn't be that way.
I do pay for software, but i rather not cuz of all the money i spent on the hardware.
Back in the day believe it or not but the people who made the hardware did make software too that outfitted with the hardware like what Apple does today.
ASUS actually had a small office suite back in the early 90's on win3.1 but didn't last long.
Thank god we do get some free software with the devices we buy like flatbed scanners and printers and some games do still come with gpu's but not like it once did when i bought my Voodoo 3 that had a few decent games and sblive which had soem good titles.