____/ [H]omer on Thursday 15 November 2007 06:58 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that bmillerjacobson@xxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>
>> 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.
>
> It's the proprietary software [1] industry's wet dream ... subscription
> only, no purchase, thus ensuring that everyone who uses their "IP" pays
> over and over and over again, for the "privilege" of accessing the same
> "IP", in perpetuity.
>
> [1] Software in the larger sense including music, video, computer code,
> and even written publications.
Planned obsolescence. The fashion industry is pretty much the same, but it
can't /force/ these issue. It's just a social force (peer pressure).
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