As freelancers, we are often responsible to have copies of the software we require to our jobs properly, and sometimes, it can be fairly expensive when you need a copy for a single project or portion of a project.
My father is now retired, but from time to time, he helps to write and maintain websites for non-for-profit organizations. For the most part, he prefers to hand code the sites using little more than Notepad, but he did purchase Microsoft Expression Web for a project at a cost of $200 Canadian, and he did put in an application for a non-for-profit license for Adobe Dreamweaver.
The problem became that the request for the non-for-profit application was taking longer than expected, and important deadlines were quickly closing in. However, there was a copy of Dreamweaver in the house… but on another computer, and one that he did not feel comfortable using. So we had to develop a schedule for using my computer in such a way that both of us could get the work done without interfering with the other one.
After he got the license, we did not need to fight over the computer, but we both learned how important it is for each of us to have our own copy of the software we need. (216)
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