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[Jutnux]

That's small fish for a serious radio company, though. Good examples would be MS Windows and Office, Photoshop etc.

Yeah, true. Microsoft offer extreme discounts for students on websites such as software4students.co.uk and there is also plenty of free alternatives and afaik there isn't a reliable free alternative for Sam Broadcaster.

[Tomm]

Yeah but the problem is that they leave no option apart from piracy for everyone else.

Here is a great example of how you can still charge appropriate amounts for business/enterprise customers but still offer a reasonable price to everyone else:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/starter/overview

Costs $10 for 10 users (i.e something actually affordable) of Jira but scales all the way up to $24,000 for 10000+ users.

That's small fish for a serious radio company, though. Good examples would be MS Windows and Office, Photoshop etc.

[Recursion]

Yeah but the problem is that they leave no option apart from piracy for everyone else.

Here is a great example of how you can still charge appropriate amounts for business/enterprise customers but still offer a reasonable price to everyone else:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/starter/overview

Costs $10 for 10 users (i.e something actually affordable) of Jira but scales all the way up to $24,000 for 10000+ users.

Oh yeah I agree, this method is a far better one. Microsoft actually do this now with schools (called an "EES Agreement") where we pay per full time staff member rather than device or student. Makes licensing so much easier, we can just buy new equipment and install whatever software we're licensed school wide for.

[peteyt]

You know what really annoys me - People complain about the prices of films, music etc. Their cheap when you compare them to the prices of software. I have no problem buying dvds and often buy CD's still but if I wanted to get a good design suite it would cost me a thousand upwards to get the top end e.g. Adobe - I think if software developers actually slashed their prices in half people would actually consider paying more.

Yeah those who could get it for free still would, but I wouldn't say no if adobe was a couple of hundred.