Its raining agian... So what, right? It always rains in the monsoon and anyway its nice to hear that rythmic beating of rain drops on the road. Its mainly nice since I'm sitting nice and dry inside. :-)
Well on a different note though, I installed this new free anitvirus called AntiVir. And I must say that it is really amazing. Already detected a trojan that well my previous antivirus couldn't. It then makes you wonder why you should pay these big corporates like Symantec the big bucks to protect your system when a free piece of software available on the net does a better job.
In fact I'd like to go a step further and say, "Why even take the 'effort' to crack the likes of norton or mcAfee, when you can get a free legal copy of something better!" (Okay I hear someone screaming lazzzzzzy in my ear). But the point is that there are better things out there. It kind of brings me to another point, as to why do we feel our system is safe only with these big corporate softwares? Why should we be so beheld by them? Afterall, in the end you'll find that they often aren't up to the mark when it comes to delivering a quality solution.
I think its been a trend in recent times, for large corporates to ride the wave of the aura that they've created around themseleves. We have the brand name, so even if there are few quality glitches, we can still charge people higher. And why is this possible? Why is it possible for these people to have a business model as successful as that?
Well... The answer is that there are gullible individuals like you and me out there to believe them. We're ready to believe all their big talk about how they 'pioneered' a technology or how they've adapted 'Six Sigma' or other great quality norms to their production lines. What we tend to forget is that in the end if the product doesn't work why should we be trusting them?
I think that there needs to be a change in perception with people. That doesn't mean to say that lets go and get only free software or only buy under dog stuff. I mean as far as usuability goes I'm sure that people will still agree that MS Windows is still easier than Linux. But, the point is don't be duped in by the brand names. Take a product, evaluate it. Make sure that it is giving you exactly what you should be getting. You should be getting value for your investments (by this I mean both time and money.) As I said, no point either wasting money on by a norton or in wasting time cracking it. Its still an inferior product in the end. (Gee I hope I'm not sounding too hard here...).
So people, I call upon you to wake up. Don't take things on face value. Spend a little time to explore the unexplored. If Chris Columbus didn't bother to do that we wouldn't have a booming capitalist country like the US to sell goods in. :-))
"A stitch in time saves nine! And that's the truth!"
Well on a different note though, I installed this new free anitvirus called AntiVir. And I must say that it is really amazing. Already detected a trojan that well my previous antivirus couldn't. It then makes you wonder why you should pay these big corporates like Symantec the big bucks to protect your system when a free piece of software available on the net does a better job.
In fact I'd like to go a step further and say, "Why even take the 'effort' to crack the likes of norton or mcAfee, when you can get a free legal copy of something better!" (Okay I hear someone screaming lazzzzzzy in my ear). But the point is that there are better things out there. It kind of brings me to another point, as to why do we feel our system is safe only with these big corporate softwares? Why should we be so beheld by them? Afterall, in the end you'll find that they often aren't up to the mark when it comes to delivering a quality solution.
I think its been a trend in recent times, for large corporates to ride the wave of the aura that they've created around themseleves. We have the brand name, so even if there are few quality glitches, we can still charge people higher. And why is this possible? Why is it possible for these people to have a business model as successful as that?
Well... The answer is that there are gullible individuals like you and me out there to believe them. We're ready to believe all their big talk about how they 'pioneered' a technology or how they've adapted 'Six Sigma' or other great quality norms to their production lines. What we tend to forget is that in the end if the product doesn't work why should we be trusting them?
I think that there needs to be a change in perception with people. That doesn't mean to say that lets go and get only free software or only buy under dog stuff. I mean as far as usuability goes I'm sure that people will still agree that MS Windows is still easier than Linux. But, the point is don't be duped in by the brand names. Take a product, evaluate it. Make sure that it is giving you exactly what you should be getting. You should be getting value for your investments (by this I mean both time and money.) As I said, no point either wasting money on by a norton or in wasting time cracking it. Its still an inferior product in the end. (Gee I hope I'm not sounding too hard here...).
So people, I call upon you to wake up. Don't take things on face value. Spend a little time to explore the unexplored. If Chris Columbus didn't bother to do that we wouldn't have a booming capitalist country like the US to sell goods in. :-))
"A stitch in time saves nine! And that's the truth!"
1 comment:
You completely overlooked the main issue. With free software, there is no one's neck you can catch if something goes wrong.
Let's say your free anti-vir just cleans up your HDD. Who do you blame ?
Now multiply that n times and imagine if a corporation loses all its customer data due to the adoption of a radical, free, hip tool.
If you buy something from an entity, the entity is then liable for damages arising from the use of their product. + There is a definitely a support team. With freebies on the net, the best you can hope for is some guru on a mailing list, geographically in a different plane altogether just answering qs without any sense of urgency.
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