Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
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Zylesea wrote:
What if you live in a country whre prices are low and wages, too? 79 EUR in sweden is on average earned with much lesser hours of work than 79 EUR with average work in other countries. E.g. what if you are unemployed in Greece? The advice (not by you) "get a 2nd job" is a bit snobish I'd say.
I think most people are very understanding of the situation in poorer regions of the world. That said, the licensing cost is most frequently criticized on MorphZone by people who happen to live in the richest countries of the world. It is a rather interesting phenomenon...
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The thing is: It's more or less only for ppl in rich countries and with a job. No prob with that and IMHO no urgend need to change that (the world is not fair). But at least one should stay honest.
Transparency is fine. That said, the license fee is only part of the story. I think it is worth pointing out again that, by investing a substantial amount of time to port MorphOS to numerous PowerPC-based Macs, the financial barrier of entry for becoming a MorphOS user has already been lowered substantially compared to, say, the Pegasos days or newer non-Apple alternatives.
Plus, as intuition wrote, you can use the OS entirely for free if you do not mind rebooting occasionally. If money is a severe obstacle, that is a nice option to have for casual users.
