I just paid for a VS 2008 / MSDN subscription out of my own pocket and that maxed my computer budget for a while.Compare that to the feeling when you first held a FPW box in your hands. Dunno... in a way these purchases seem to be almost a drag now when it used to be more of a pleasure like a new Video player.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1