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Originally posted by TK3
But $800 for Office 2007 seems reasonable, right? People wouldn't pirate or rip off these products if the companies weren't beating consumers over the head. $1500 for acrylic with a pump or two? R&D - HA! Testing skimmers might be the cheapest R&D on Earth. They either work well, work OK, or not at all.
That being said, you DO have the option to buy something else.
Not everyone gets to drive a Ferrari.
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My point was that there is more to the cost of bringing a product to market than the manufacturing costs. The reason for the SW analogy is I had a conversation with someone recently who was trying to justify pirating (stealing) software because "it only costs $0.50 to make a CD. Anything more than that is a ripoff". BTW, Office 2007 does not cost $800.