Comments on: The disparity of US and EU software pricing models http://alex.leonard.ie/2008/08/13/the-disparity-of-us-and-eu-software-pricing-models/ Being The Singular Personal Blog and Virtual Soapbox of Alex Leonard Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Alex Leonard http://alex.leonard.ie/2008/08/13/the-disparity-of-us-and-eu-software-pricing-models/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Alex Leonard Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:13:02 +0000 http://alex.leonard.ie/?p=54#comment-30 Heh. Well I know what you think, but well, I'm trying to maintain legit status where-ever possible and there have been a few situations where we've needed to use the ridiculously expensive (even at €200) MS Office suite - mainly due to MS making it next to impossible to have proper interoperation of their file types with other Office packages. However, I'm not trying to focus on the proprietary vs. open source end of things here, just the insane differences in pricing between US and EU software. The Adobe stuff is well documented and discussed, but this is the first time I came across the MS Office pricing and it's retarded. Heh. Well I know what you think, but well, I’m trying to maintain legit status where-ever possible and there have been a few situations where we’ve needed to use the ridiculously expensive (even at €200) MS Office suite – mainly due to MS making it next to impossible to have proper interoperation of their file types with other Office packages.

However, I’m not trying to focus on the proprietary vs. open source end of things here, just the insane differences in pricing between US and EU software.

The Adobe stuff is well documented and discussed, but this is the first time I came across the MS Office pricing and it’s retarded.

]]> By: steve http://alex.leonard.ie/2008/08/13/the-disparity-of-us-and-eu-software-pricing-models/comment-page-1/#comment-29 steve Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:07:50 +0000 http://alex.leonard.ie/?p=54#comment-29 i dunno what to say to you... i dunno what to say to you…

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