I agree....
If the prices were reasonable everyone would buy legit software...
How companies can expect a small start up business with limited investment to be able to afford to buy and use original software is anyone's guess?
Once u start making money on a regular basis I guess you can then save and buy the original one at a time.
But there is still the problem of updating and spending money on the next version.
It is a really non stop process once you decide to go legit on non open source software.
which is why i guess people are moving towards to Linux and other such open source things