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Old 12th May 2009 | 21:31
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Jofm5
 
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Ahhhhh,

When it comes to pre-release software one should only go to the source or your just asking for trouble.

On a slight thread drift - I dont understand why people use the torrents for software - just about all decent software has a near good enough open source equivalent (sometimes better e.g. WireShark).

I can confess years ago to having the odd bits of software that were dubious but I now take the view that if I use it, I buy it - if I am only going to use once then I download the evaluation or search for some open source equivalent.

I do think on the whole software can be way over priced for some of the more mainstream applications e.g. it was claimed that if microsoft gave away everything they developed free apart from office it would still turn a profit.
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