because the programmers only get the money from the people who actually buy it and so many people dl it and they expect a certain salary from programming a dohicky like photoshop.....
yep, what he said, same with suff like cubase, flash mx etc.. , but with cubase you have to dongle the dongle edt: thing is once the code is down, it's down, it's not like a shoe or a car where there's all this production cost for the physical product. the physical product is a box and a cd. vive le gimp. ..... and i've been awake for going on 32 hours now because of responsible type stuff, I should go konk out or something.