What was the first computer software you bought with your money?

Half Life 2

>>62424510
excluding games, learn to read ffs

Half Life 2

I live in central europe, so it was pretty natural to me to pirate everything I need (and many things I don't need). Even when I got new laptop with windows I erased the disk to get rid of shovelware and installed pirated ultimate version of Windows.

I'm 25 and my first legally bought license was Sublime Text 3. It's just so good software.

Windows 98 SE

Half Life 2

>>62424493
WinRAR

>>62424493
Probably something from my OSX phase, on Windows I would just torrent anything. I've never bought any big office suites or anything like that but simple 10€ ease of use software was pretty essential on Apple ten years ago.

>>62424493
I never paid for any software

>>62424493
If games don't count, then I've never bought software in my life. I used Linux or BSD since age 13.

>>62424493
Mobil apps, probably a video converter for windows phone back when it had future

xbox live

>>62424493
LukaV2 I guess.

>>62424493
>games don't count
That would be a tax software then, bought in 2016 I think

Guitar FX Box 3

Sublime Text

>>62424786
same

>>62424786
Same, if you exclude games. I never needed paid software to do something I can do with freeware/opensource shit.

>>62424493
Windows 95

>>62424493
Excluding games? MakeMKV, probably.

>>62424493
>buying software

>>62424493
Never bought any.

>>62425272
>>62425240
>>62424975
>>62424803
>>62424786
Do you use free as in free beer alternatives? Or do you just pirate shit?

>>62424493
Red hat 4.1 for my compaq presario 486 in 1997.

>>62425522
>free as in free beer alternatives?
They are usually shit compared to their commercial alternatives.
So yes, pirate shit, but not like a 16 year old script kiddie that becomes part of the botnet.

>>62425603
>pirate shit, but not like a 16 year old script kiddie that becomes part of the botnet
you must be so good at hacking software, what's your haxx0r nickname?

>>62424493
Holy shit I just realized I never bought software.

>>62424786
ayy me too only i buy CSGO and that only because my friend force me too

FL Studio

>>62424493
Excluding games and preinstalled Windows, I guess I've not bought any software.
I've given money to Canonical, Mint devs and recently UBports though.

>>62424493
poweramp for android.
Unless you count donations to free software projects as a purchase.

>>62424493
Not counting games: mIRC after god knows how long using it for free.
>Special offer, 5bux
May as well.

>>62424786
This. Who the fuck pays for a software lmao

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shit was awesome

>>62424493
Its gonna be half life 3

>>62424493
I have never purchased software. I've used GNU/Linux since I got my first computer.

>>62425522
bumping the question

>>62424493
>buying software

>>62424493
ubuntu on CD. Paid 20 cents for it. This was back in 2001.

soldat

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>>62424493
Game Maker 6.1

>>62425635
Don't be a dumbass, that's the only requirement.

>>62426372
game is dead now.

>>62426361
Ubuntu didn't even exist in 2001.

>>62425522
There is no reason to pay for any software, if you want something for private use free alternatives are good enough, if you need something to work your boss will buy it for you and if you're freelancer buying it is a waste of money because free alternatives are good enough and you're a failure pretending to be professional anyway.

>>62426427
that was like 13 years ago. I would be surprised if it weren't

>>62424493
Guild Wars or something

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It was this:
Tho before that my dad brought me all office / windows / printer and all sorts of other software for free due to the nature of his work, but my tricky mind discovered piracy early even tho my family had money... it seemed simpler and faster + saving money to pirate

>>62426472
>free alternatives are good enough and you're a failure pretending to be professional anyway
not really
of course you can spend few weeks to configure vim/emacs to work as IDE, but if you work with pictures or videos there's hardly "good enougth" free software

>>62424493
Age of empires 3

>>62424493
CrossOver. Money well spent.

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Probably this thing after winning $80 in a Lego contest.

Amazing that a 3D movie creator could run in 8MB RAM.

LSDJ
Think I only spent a dollar

Congrats on your hidden propaganda BSD cuck, I bet you scam a lot of programmer into letting corporations steal their code by not using GPL.

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>>62427222

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium

>>62424493
Windows 3.11

Half Life 2

Windows 8

Half life 2

Fedora Core 3 on DVD.

>>62424493

since you asked OP, I realised I have never bought any software besides games and windows.


hahaha corporate fags BTFO

i also never donate to any donateware or wikipedia "personal appeal" BS.

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>>62424493

3DRAD - like the Unity game engine, but from 1999

seriously you all are gnu/autists or steal your software? gross

Milkshape. I don't think I've purchased anything else.

>>62424493
I've never bought any software other than gaymes. I'm using mostly free (as in €) software and some pirated stuff

>>62424493
No games, then never. I have never bought any software.

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Honestly none.

As a kid I pirated games and got windows 95 pre installed.

As an adult I moved to Linux.

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>paying for software

>>62424493
devil daggers

>>62426472
>if you want something for private use free alternatives are good enough
this is what freetards actually believe
it's sad and it's incredible hard to work with those kind of people in society

>>62424493
FxHome Effects Lab Pro. I used to do Star Wars fan videos with my friends when I was 12.

Poweramp on android

>>62429684
open source is cool but not all software developers want to spend 8 hours a day making software for free

>>62424493
I bought winedt, a LaTeX editor for windows. This was back when people still bought software and I still used windows.

>>62425192
this, many many years ago.

>>62429807
>he thinks open source devs are always unpaid
Maybe you have never heard of openstack, linux, mongodb and many other. Educate yourself.

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>>62424493
>BSD
quick rundown on this please?
>money to be had
huh?

>>62429985
linux is a kernel faggot are you telling me the kernel just generates free money when you develop software with it?

>>62426472
Find me a free alternative to Mobaxterm that isn't total shit and even comes close to the functionality.

>>62430031
You can always sell your software, even if it's free software

>>62424493
Ableton Live Suite 9

Bought a couple of Windows keys on ebay for £4, probably ruskie shit but they work fine. I guess thats not really "legit".

half life 2

>>62424493
Interstate 76

>>62429991
you do not deserve to be spoonfed

>>62425522
All of my life, I have only ever used Free Software. From the time I was a child, I understood the gravity of using non free programs, and simply refused to use them.

>>62429991
BSD license grants true freedom over the code. GPL grants quasi-complete freedom, the only restriction being that you can't impede the freedom of others.

BSD users develop a superiority complex over this all the while failing to understand why they get routinely fucked over by networking giants. Linux and GNU enjoy steady growth in the meantime.

Actually, legitimately bought?
Dance eJay, probably.

>>62424493
I bought a metronome app for Android.

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>>62424493
is windows XP counted If the windows is not pre-installed and i need to purchase it separately??

>>62424493
Unironically, Linux.
It was Red Hat Linux 5.0 (notice the lack of "Enterprise"). It came with a book.

>>62430585
>only restriction being that you can't impede the freedom of others
only restriction being that you force others who want to use your code to use same license

inb4 noone forces you to use GPL software
noone forces me to use proprietary software either and that doesn't make it free

Mac OS X 10.1

Pirated everything as a kid.
Switched to linux in the 2002.
Work gives me licenses for free for Microsoft shit.
Only pirated software I still use is CS2.

I honestly don't think I've spent a dime on software other then games.

>>62431779
No, you bought a book that came with a linux cd.

>>62431962
He bought a Linux CD that came with a book.

>>62431962
The book was literally 100% documentation. >>62431972 is right.

I have never and will never purchase software on purpose (besides video games). The only software I pirate is my OS (Windows), everything else is free already. The software I write is free and open source. I feel like it's better this way.

>>62429807
In my experience it's been like this
>I want this thing, it must exist
>search for thing, doesn't exist
>write thing for myself
>have thing
>release thing

>>62431993
It doesn't matter what was in the book. If you buy a box of air you bought a box that comes with air. You could get that air without buying the box.

>>62424493
Paintshop Pro XI

>>62432107
I could use the same argument to show it was a CD that came with a book. It was packaged as RHL with documentation.

>>62424493
Rosetta Stone because I thought it would make learning a new language effortless.

It's actually twice as fucking hard trying to learn it yourself. You can't trust yourself to get pronunciation and accent right.

>>62432094
in my experience it's been like this
>i want this thing, it must exist
>search for thing, it exists but needs to be bought
>torrent thing
>seed thing

>>62434106
winbabbies, everyone

>>62428527
>gross
just /g/

>>62424493
Hospital Tycoon


Great game by the way, even to today's standards.

>>62424493
Nero Burning Rom.

>>62424493
WinSplit Revolution, off of Steam.

MATLAB R2016b

Excel

photoshop cs6 and sdrtouch for android. haven't bought anything else.

>>62424493
Music on CDs.

Your picture is also inaccurate because you can sell GPL software for as much as you want as long as you provide the source to paying customers through a file sharing server or on a physical medium by mail such as a CD/DVD or flash drive.

>>62424493
Microsoft office

>>62424493
what's wrong with BSD license, it is much better than GPL