Originally Posted by
well-tech.ltd
Astral, ever bought a coffee to take away ? Why did you bother, you could have made it in the house.
Ever bought a bowl of soup from a cafe ? Why did you bother, you could have done it at home a lot cheaper.
Ever put petrol in your car ? Why did you bother, there is loads of oil in the north sea that you could go and get yourself for free :-)
People buy all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons. A lot of the software I distribute is retailed through petrol stations, service stations, small shops etc. If someone buys, for instance, a CD of 65 freeware/open source platform games, it's because they like platform games and would rather pay £4 than search/find/download/install 65 games from the net.
If you want to unlock a particular feature of your ipod, and you see a cd that does just that on a shelf for £2.99, would you rather go home and find it, download it, try it to see if it works instead ? Or would you say 'Thats what I was looking for and it's sitting there in a box for £2.99'.
Why buy a book when you can get them free from the library ?
The list of reasons is pretty much endless :-)
Except that it's not allowed on EBid while large scale theft of Microsoft intellectual property is accepted and welcomed.