There's been some uproar in my country over a decision made 3 years ago - my former university has made it mandatory for every new student to get their laptop. The laptop costs 400USD and is well priced for the specs being given - core i5, 15.6 inch screen, 4GB RAM etc. It also comes with windows 8.1 and office installed by default and licensed too.
So parents this year have just woken up and said why should they buy the college laptop (assembled locally) when they can get laptops at 200USD?
One of the underlying issues here is that those cheap laptops being sold don't have an OS installed and that will costs money to install. However, software piracy is very common. The gullible ones will pay 1-5USD for windows OS while the tech savvy will just scour the internet for a hack.
This leads me to my question: what's your view on software piracy? Or copyright infringement? Locally software like photoshop, lightroom, office, Antivirus, Windows OS, and many others get hacked a lot, both my students and average pc users. I can't remember seeing anyone actually buying photoshop or lightroom unless they are in a professional company
Certainly many users will say they cannot afford the software - Matlab can cost 1200USD while Autocad can cost 6000USD
a recent report said that more than 67% of users in the emerging countries use pirated software. So who loses out on this? Is it the big companies like MS and Adobe? Or is it the local government in lost revenue? Or is it the users of pirated software? And then there re reports that large corporations like Amazon or Apple don't pay tax in certain places - that doesn't inspire confidence, does it?
Share below
So parents this year have just woken up and said why should they buy the college laptop (assembled locally) when they can get laptops at 200USD?
One of the underlying issues here is that those cheap laptops being sold don't have an OS installed and that will costs money to install. However, software piracy is very common. The gullible ones will pay 1-5USD for windows OS while the tech savvy will just scour the internet for a hack.
This leads me to my question: what's your view on software piracy? Or copyright infringement? Locally software like photoshop, lightroom, office, Antivirus, Windows OS, and many others get hacked a lot, both my students and average pc users. I can't remember seeing anyone actually buying photoshop or lightroom unless they are in a professional company
Certainly many users will say they cannot afford the software - Matlab can cost 1200USD while Autocad can cost 6000USD
a recent report said that more than 67% of users in the emerging countries use pirated software. So who loses out on this? Is it the big companies like MS and Adobe? Or is it the local government in lost revenue? Or is it the users of pirated software? And then there re reports that large corporations like Amazon or Apple don't pay tax in certain places - that doesn't inspire confidence, does it?
Share below
from Windows Central Forums http://ift.tt/2bTdIiv
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment