[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Stanislav Blinov]

Yao G. wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:27:31 -0500, Vladimir <vlad at mymail.rus> wrote:
> 
>> I'm quite satisfied with the torrent version. As long as no money goes 
>> directly to the D development I refuse to buy books. The book guy 
>> already earns 10 to 100 times as much as a normal developer in Russia.
> 
> LOL. Gotta love the way you justify being a pirate.
> 

It's somewhat a disease in Russia. At one point, in the middle/late 
1990s, piracy has gone to such lengths that almost every piece of 
software, music, video and you name it was available at virtually no 
cost (or at least very little compared to official prices, e.g. $3 vs 
$20). From this came many homegrown "professionals" that got their hands 
on things such as Windows, Visual Studio, Photoshop, 3DS MAX and so on. 
They got it, clicked it, assumed it was easy to get and easy to use - 
and here we are - we have a HUGE army of developers, artists, 
photographers... And most of them (not all, mind you, but the very most) 
- are in doublequotes just because anything they could REALLY do is find 
an take, but not think and use (no offense Vladimir, maybe you ARE from 
those "not all", I simply judge from my own experience). Even now I face 
the professionalism and skills of my local Internet "providers" (read - 
I don't use their services).

Later rise of torrents and other filetrackers put even more oil to the 
fire. Now I love resources like old-games.ru - resources where you 
really can find something that's just not available in any other form 
today. But this is different. Even Microsoft, with all I personally 
think about them, put a lot of effort into Visual Studio. And the fact 
that the company is richer today than I'll probably be in my life won't 
justify my "desire" to take their product for free. No one earns 
anything just for the shiny eyes.