SheerTerror said:

nah, i think they have already made enough money. why continue to put millions of dollars to the movie industry, music industry, recording industry, actors, ect. Its better to put your hard earned money to better causes then paying for everything that can be downloaded for free.

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debianlinux said:

the only reason it is available for download is because several individuals put years of their life into working on it.

they deserve to be compensated for that time and effort if you think the program deserves your time and effort to put to use.

where the fuck do you think their money comes from?

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SheerTerror said:

Yeah well its my money, so i have no reason to suck they're cocks and donate my money to something i can just download. If all the software engineers, actors, and musicians think that everyone should be altruistic and donate money to them and make them rich, well then if they believe in altruism they should work for free.

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debianlinux said:

Stizzle was right to suggest the gimp

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I've been using gimp for a while now, photoshop prior to that and gimp may not
have all the bells and whistles of photoshop but it is better than 80%+ of the pay
software I've seen

SheerTerror said:

Yeah, i was just talking about all the billions of dollars that are going to multimedia that is free on the net. The money could be going into such better things then hard copies of disposable digital media

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You're right, the media itself is worthless.  Discs maybe cost a penny or two.  But.....eh, nevermind   You know exactly where I'm going with this, you seriously don't think this way, right?