The week in your words: deep Fryed Vista
By Stuart Turton
Posted on 12 Dec 2008 at 15:58
Eerily, that last part is almost a word for word reprint of our hiring policy.
"Maybe the PC should never have been invented that way their revenue stream would not have been interrupted," said mrstevenrogers, helpfully.
"I'm sceptical as to whether the consumer would actually benefit from a huge reduction in piracy," noted jimexbox. "Maybe I'm cynical, but I tend to think software houses would not reduce the price of their games despite any extra profit derived from a drop in illegal downloads. We would probably get another well worn cliche about jobs being saved and more money being available to invest in future releases charged at the same price."
See you all next week.
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