>> That's frequently the case for users of Adobe Photoshop as well -
>> especially CS:  The people who tend to use it are the pros, not the
>> hobbiest user.
> 
> And that's part of the justification for the price tag. If you're using 
> this either the company has paid for it, or you're a professional who 
> needs it...

That I don't mind so much. For example, an Oracle DB will cost you 
almost as much as a small house (!!), but then again, why the hell would 
you even need it if you're only a hobbiest? It's a tad overkill just for 
sorting your CD collection.

> Like so much us proles have to wait 
> until the spanking new features trickle down to the affordable software ;-)

Well, these days with open-source and all, for every big commercial 
application, there's at least one OSS alternative that's vaguely useable.

MS Windows => Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, ReactOS...
MS Office => OpenOffice
Photoshop => The GIMP
Illustrator => Inkscape
Oracle => MySQL, PostgreSQL
VMware => VirtualBox, QEMU, Bochs, Xen...

In each case [except Office], the commercial version is greatly 
superior, but the free version does work. So it's a case of how badly 
you need a high-quality product.

What *does* annoy me is software which is both expensive *and* defective...

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