Steve, I appreciate the endorsement.
I used to use Windows programs back in the day when you could buy a lifetime software license. But when the licensing paradigm changed from lifetime licenses to subscriptions & annual licenses, I got tired of having to continually shell out another $80 every year to re-purchase the same software packages over and over and over again.
For me the straw that broke the camel's back was Easy CD Creator. I was using it to burn audio CDs, and it was working fine. I used CD-Text to burn the track names onto the CD, so that CD-text compatible players could display the text as the CD was playing the music.
Then I got an upgrade notice that a new upgrade to Easy CD Creator was available for $80. Within a short time after the upgrade offer, my software mysteriously starting to malfunction -- it would mysteriously start failing to import the track titles into the music CDs I was burning. Of course, tech support said that the only way to fix the problem was to purchase the $80 version upgrade. It certainly seemed as if the software was using a time bomb to encourage users to upgrade. The second time this happened I walked away. It was at that time that I realized that the CD burning software in linux is FREE. So I started using linux just so I could burn CDs.
It seemed that every time that I turned around, I had to spend another $80 to upgrade another Windows software license. Instead of paying for a new OS every few years when I bought a new computer, I started having to pay for updated software license fees every year for most of the programs that I owned. Those $80 upgrades added up pretty fast. Eventually it got to the point where I decided that I wouldn't keep sending my money to the richest man on earth if there was another option available. So I started using Linux and I've never looked back.
I'm happy to say that the last pieces of MS software that I bought were XP and Office 97. Essentially, the only reason I even keep a Windows box around is so that I can run TurboTax. Around here, everything else gets done in linux.
I used to use Windows programs back in the day when you could buy a lifetime software license. But when the licensing paradigm changed from lifetime licenses to subscriptions & annual licenses, I got tired of having to continually shell out another $80 every year to re-purchase the same software packages over and over and over again.
For me the straw that broke the camel's back was Easy CD Creator. I was using it to burn audio CDs, and it was working fine. I used CD-Text to burn the track names onto the CD, so that CD-text compatible players could display the text as the CD was playing the music.
Then I got an upgrade notice that a new upgrade to Easy CD Creator was available for $80. Within a short time after the upgrade offer, my software mysteriously starting to malfunction -- it would mysteriously start failing to import the track titles into the music CDs I was burning. Of course, tech support said that the only way to fix the problem was to purchase the $80 version upgrade. It certainly seemed as if the software was using a time bomb to encourage users to upgrade. The second time this happened I walked away. It was at that time that I realized that the CD burning software in linux is FREE. So I started using linux just so I could burn CDs.
It seemed that every time that I turned around, I had to spend another $80 to upgrade another Windows software license. Instead of paying for a new OS every few years when I bought a new computer, I started having to pay for updated software license fees every year for most of the programs that I owned. Those $80 upgrades added up pretty fast. Eventually it got to the point where I decided that I wouldn't keep sending my money to the richest man on earth if there was another option available. So I started using Linux and I've never looked back.
I'm happy to say that the last pieces of MS software that I bought were XP and Office 97. Essentially, the only reason I even keep a Windows box around is so that I can run TurboTax. Around here, everything else gets done in linux.
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