[pageonetoo]

How much software ON YOUR COMPUTER did you PAY for? You must not like commerce!
Do you have any "copies" of software, for which you did not pay, or only paid for a cd-rom disc, to copy it onto?
Do you run a business?
They are out to make money, not satisfy the whim to have the LATEST!
Business is smart to try and make money from its products... dumb to give it away... why do you think they have those long passwords... which may have been handwritten on that cd-rom?

[kylaka]

I paid for and own every piece of software on my machine, including the $20 shareware programs. And I can run software made for my old 80286 and DOS 3.0 on my P-4 running XP. Where did you bury all your old MAC stuff? In the backyard with the dead pets? After all, you paid for it 8 times over.

[kylaka]

Oh, I forgot one thing. I never much cared for Steve Jobs telling me (via Apple commercials) that I was too stupid to learn how to edit batch files .... and he would make life simple if I just handed over a few thousand dollars more for his Apple Computers than I could pay some guy down the block to build a PC. It seems I've heard some political parties make the same pitch, and I don't much care for them either.