My small group uses Trinity from day-to-day but if ever I referred one of our customers to the Trinity Web site with the idea that it could help them to fix their problem, I would expect them to come back and shoot me. I think the Trinity folks have CMS disease. How abouut a "Here's what it does" page with details for ordinary citizens? The CD is great, but you'd better have some idea of what you are doing.

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I mean - who'd want to profit from someone else's misfortune?

If somebody wants to build a kick-ass data recovery product that works very well, saves me time, and helps them pay for a new deck or swimming pool, sign me up. Now, I haven't used enough products to know that there isn't a better choice than what I have used, but I won't begrudge anybody $80 if they solve my problem consistently and bundle it in a way that it is easy to use. With R-Studio, I am even prepared to suffer the indignity that it runs on Windows!

I am trying to think of the list of open-source product that make up the day-to-day underpinnings of my present working life:

PHP, perl, MySQL, CentOS/Redhat, Fedora Directory Services, Samba, Apache, PubCookie, OpenOffice, KDE, Drupal, PHPMyAdmin, PhpLDAPAdmin, OpenFiler to offer/mention an incomplete list

But I'll gladly pay if I feel a vendor is producing something exceptional in my interest. It's a pretty short list -- what I am glad to pay for. The aforementioned R-Studio and ....VMWare. Scratching my head to think of what else!