*The dashboard I'm asking for isn't warez...* I just can't get the link to it because you need to be a registered user on the forums in order to see it. I'm just asking for a link guys.
And I'm a firm believer that most software is completely overpriced, and that without warez, people like me who can't afford to spend 7 grand on a piece of software (Like Alias|Wavefront's Maya Unlimited) would never have the opportunity to use it and grow from it. You guys think Microsoft has any right to charge people a thousand dollars for a development platform, being that they're one of the wealthiest companies in existence? I realize that people have to make money, and that software developers need compensation, but in the grand scale of things it's a dog eat dog market that's getting worse and worse every day. People's lives are being consumed by video games that they're being forced to pay for every month just to play. JUST TO PLAY! You guys think that's ok? Pirated copies of software supposedly cause tons of revenue loss every year and do irreperable harm to software companies, but if that was even remotely true then these companies would be in peril. I assure you, the CEO's and all the executives that are supposedly taking it in the ass all drive home every night in cars that cost as much as your houses. And you want to know something? Most development right now is being outsourced to different countries by software companies. Right now, they'll hire cheap labor in India to develop a piece of software for a fraction of the price instead of hiring an american (I know this because I have good friends who work for Microsoft and Computer Associates). Software companies are screwing their OWN PEOPLE every single day, and these bastards have the audacity to complain about a few pirated copies of their software floating around and being used by people who can truly appreciate the software for what it is instead of the price tag attached to it. Do you see open source developers who write some of the best and most reliable software in the world putting in copy protections and keys and security mechanisms so that they can horde every penny from everyone? I just wanted to get that out there before you guys thought I was some kind of freeloading bandit... I wish the webmaster luck. I'm a software developer for a company who doesn't pay me enough and charges over 40,000$ for a piece of software I wrote in my living room over the course of 3 months. It actually sells too. That's what blows my mind; people actually buy it. That's ridiculous.
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