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Re:Why Software is Expensive by nsoonhui on Monday October 05, 2009 @09:06AM (#861694)
>Computers are extremely cheap. Before personal computers I'd >have to buy very expensive manufacturing machine to provide >such value with so little work.

That's because you not living in a third world country. In a third world country one brand new dell laptop ( not very high end one) can easily cost as much as the salary of a programmer.

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Re:Why Software is Expensive by scotty79 on Monday October 05, 2009 @09:24AM (#861721)
In my country (that fortunately is not third world but also not the first world exactly) I can buy decent (not high end) computer for my monthly developer earnings and I consider this to be really cheap. There is no other machine so cheap that could provide me with way to produce so much value.
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Re:Why Software is Expensive by Retric on Monday October 05, 2009 @09:10AM (#861700)
Cheep programmers = buy cheep PC's. You can get a lot of HW for 300$.

Edit: Ok, I understand the downvotes, but I spent a lot of time developing on HW far worse than what 300$ can buy you today.

  From dell:
  Starting Price  $269 
  Windows  
  AMD Sempron™ LE-1300 (2.3GHz, 800MHz, 512KB)
  2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
  320GB4 Serial ATA Hard Drive
PS: I would still suggest 2 x 17+" monitors but those are not that expencive.
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Re:Why Software is Expensive by scotty79 on Monday October 05, 2009 @10:50AM (#861887)
Maybe you are being downvoted for spelling cheap as cheep or maybe some programmers feel offended by your "cheap programmers" that sounds degrading. "Less affluent programmers can buy cheaper PC's" sounds better.
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