Our previous poll that ran a couple months indicates that out of 7341 voters, 28% would use priated software to test it (try before you buy scenario), whereas another 28% would not use it at all. These two categories were the highest percentage in any bracket. Following closely behind at 21% is the category "it costs too much", which means software companies price their products too high for 21% of the population. However, 15% of the voters don't want to contribute any money at all to use a product. The final category at 6% of the tallies fall under the "don't use it enough" to warrant purchase of a product. So all in all, 43% of the voters would use pirated software, if we tack on the testers that would increase the percentage to 72% of the population that use pirated software (if even for a short time). This would mean a steady 28% that do not touch pirated software.
Posted on Friday, 15 October 2004 @ 09:24:32 UTC by Paul (2107 reads) [ Trackback ]
