"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> A quick search with Google reveals an Aladdin's cave of flashy programs
> that promise to get your data back. If you pay money, anyway. Even the
> ones with "FREE!" splashed all over them are actually just demo versions
> that show you the files it could get back if you just pay up with real
> money first. Or maybe you can only recover the first 100 files. Or only
> files under 10 KB in size. Or some other arbitrary limitation to force
> you to buy the full deal.
>
> Dodgy, much?
>
> There are dozens of flashy programs that claim to reconstruct
> filesystems, but they all cost money.

Yes. Such is life. Bread costs money. Milk costs money. Electricity costs
money. Coffee costs money. And so *drum roll*, software costs money.
Programmers are not magicians, they need money to live just like everybody
else. So what's wrong with *paying* for software? Do you call bakers "dodgy"
too because they may give you a bite size sample but they don't give you
whole loaves of bread for free?

Of course it's not your fault that you have no respect for software
developers, it's their own making. The problem with is that academics have
given away too much for too long, and they can afford to do that because
they are not giving away their own time but government's or the
institution's time. Contrast this with, say, milk. There are no government
funded farmer academicians who take it upon themselves to give out free
milk, not that the same thing would even work for physical goods.

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