BUY vs DOWNLOAD

goldorak · 08-11-08, 02:21 PM

Jokes aside, for open source software I buy or download (I have bought in the past several retail linux distributions, suse 8 professional, some flavors of slackware etc...), it doesn't make a very great difference.
For closed source software the situation is a little bit more complex, generally I buy the retail product and then apply drm-free patches if they are available otherwise I don't buy it.
On the other hand I stay miles away from any kind of download system, I like owning the product when all is said and done.

View Poll Results: BUY Box copy vs DOWNLOAD
ALWAYS BUY Box copy	22	55.00%
ALWAYS DOWNLOAD	0	0%
A LITTLE of BOTH	18	45.00%
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08-11-08, 02:21 PM	#5
goldorak Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,320 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Jokes aside, for open source software I buy or download (I have bought in the past several retail linux distributions, suse 8 professional, some flavors of slackware etc...), it doesn't make a very great difference. For closed source software the situation is a little bit more complex, generally I buy the retail product and then apply drm-free patches if they are available otherwise I don't buy it. On the other hand I stay miles away from any kind of download system, I like owning the product when all is said and done.