Sad to say, it is getting to the point where the big companies are driving away paying customers into the arms of the freeware publishers. I am a typical home user, who over the years has added computers one at a time to a home network. It has gotten to the point now with the bigger software companies like Symantec that I can no longer afford to be a customer. If I want Norton Utilities on five machines, I have to buy five copies at about $100 Canadian apiece. Then I have to buy five copies of their Firewall. It is now at the point where I have to spend almost $1,000 a year to protect my computers if I buy full suites of their software. Clearly this is no longer viable for me.
If some benevolent company like AVG is willing to give me a free program that is also as effective as a full pay program, then I am not going to fork out hundreds of dollars. I wouldn't mind paying if they would grant me a multiuse license for a reduced price for a home user, but now they have priced themselves out of my reach.
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