*Are American programs that bad? * No, not really, but for some reason there is a tendency to let the purchaser beta test commercial programs and use their problems and complaints to work out the bugs in the program.  I don't know if this is done in other countries, I don't purchase a lot of software that isn't already in American Standard English.  Not a predudice thing, just a "keep the money at home" thing.

I also buy local if at all possible and don't give my money to mega-corporations if I don't have to.  Small business and local business is the heart and soul of the free enterprise system and I just don't see the point of sending my hard earned dollars (US) to some faceless, "gormless" corporation working out of a holding account in the Bahamas or in another country if that same money will help feed, clothe and house one of my local folk.

I do practice "Think Local, Act Global" much of the time but there reaches a point where you have to turn that idea around...IMHO.