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Re:Poll: Are you a software pirate? by masterj on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @02:01PM (#1532869)
My impression is that mac users tend to buy software more often than windows users as a percentage of the whole, at least for small to medium applications. Examples: Textmate, Transmit, Sizeup, Divvy, etc. I highly doubt that would apply to behemoths like photoshop though.

Not that I have any data to back that up, just my general impression.

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Re:Poll: Are you a software pirate? by junkbit on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @02:53PM (#1533085)
I am amazed at the amount of trivial mac apps that sell for $20+. OMG, bold font pro and spellcheck+ are on special offer! Culture shock for a Linux user.
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Re:Poll: Are you a software pirate? by masterj on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @03:40PM (#1533220)
This is true, but there are quite a few high quality applications that that kind of culture enables as well. I would gladly pay for an ftp app as nice and polished as Transmit 4 on Linux, but as far as I know one doesn't exist. Not that there isn't great software on Linux, but I enjoy the emphasis placed on design by the Mac community when it comes to the top applications.
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