ok computer - arrogant computer companies

It occurs to me that maybe people should steal computer software. It would certainly be very Thoreau-like to give the finger to the developers from your very own virtual Walden. It can be extremely frustrating trying to getting things done when it feels like the computer companies are more concerned only with entertaining themselves and lining their pockets with your gold pieces . The industry seems a little self absorbed and down right arrogant. Where else would such poorly crafted product be allowed to ship ? Where else would the pricing structures be so arbetrary? Where else would the product support be so lacking and condscending ? Where else would there be such arrogant, self absorbed design ? Why should I pay real money for a real tool when it will be rendered obsolete with in two years? If this existed in any other industry they would be out of business.

Computers have certainly made life a lot different for all of us. Sometimes this is a good thing and at other times bad. I just wish we weren't held hostage so much by the computers companies and required to pay them to be beta testers. Obviously I could not convey this message here without the use of a computer but that doesn't mean we should have to be tortured to do so.

Wake up and start thinking about your customers. Give them not what you think they need , but what they need.