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Re: Microsoft Pulls Another RIAA: DRM on Software (aka "Rent, Not Own")

bmillerjacobson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Nov 14, 11:12 pm, "bmillerjacob...@xxxxxxxxx"
> <bmillerjacob...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 9:32 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Microsoft expands Office 'pay-as-you-go' rental program
>>
>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> > | Via the pay-as-you-go program, users can choose three- or six-month
>> > | subscriptions to Office Professional 2007 and pay a monthly fee to
>> > use the | product.
>> > `----
>>
>> Just when I thought their sow
> 
> Hit send button by accident, sorry.
> 
> Just when I thought their software couldn't get any more expensive, they
> come up with this. From their point of view, this might scream huge
> profits, but I bet users will just get fed up eventually and go open
> source, for the most part.

No surprise.  They've been saying for years that they want to move to a 
subscription model.  They already have it, effectively, with their 
corporate licensing plans...

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