Posts: 1372 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:
DFergFLA wrote:
My point is and has always been, the cost of a license being more then the cost of the hardware is crazy.
It is not crazy at all, though.
If the single most differentiating factor that makes you want to buy a particular computer system is a specific operating system and compatible third-party software, why would it be crazy to spend a larger portion of a computer system´s total cost of ownership on the very software that is the sole reason why you would purchase the hardware in the first place?
Personally, I find it a lot less reasonable if someone had to spend, say, USD 1000 on a complete system to run a particular operating system but only 5% of the sum would be used to pay software development expenses, even though the computer hardware was specifically developed to run this specific OS...
By the way, there are plenty of professionals as well as some consumers who buy software that is substantially more expensive than the hardware it runs on. (3D design, music applications, etc.)
