Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:06:59 -0600 From: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> To: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <3B433F23.D93C772E@Silver-Lynx.com> References: <NFBBJICOAOJNJHMCFMLMKEAACAAA.mikel@ocsinternet.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010704102824.017f8008@threespace.com>
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Technical Information wrote: > > Actually, I've heard that Borland is going to be implementing a similar > scheme in its next generation of development tools and require the user to > register online or by some other means in order to get a key to run the > software for more than a limited period of time. Your software then > essentially becomes a very expensive time-limited shareware demo until you > complete that process. > > Just as Microsoft led the Windows application industry away from version > numbers (like 3.11, 4.0, 6.2a, etc.), I suspect that their legitimizing > this new form of licensing will incite a lot of other companies to follow > their lead. Hopefully they won't all start telling us that we'll have to > renew those licenses every few years or so either. > I'm sure they will stop supporting older versions, just as M$ doesn't support W3.1 or (hardly) W95. As soon as users get trapped into upgrading their Windows, all their old software becomes trash. This will be a Very Good Thing for platforms like ours, even though it will almost certainly tank our American economy. For example, Cadence bought OrCAD. They now want $2.5G a year from me for the "privilege" of receiving bugfixes for their low-end product, which cost me a total of $6G in the first place. Time to start looking at helping to write gEDA... -- Don Wilde http://www.Silver-Lynx.com Silver Lynx Embedded Microsystems Architects 2218 Southern Bl. Ste. 12 Rio Rancho, NM 87124 505-891-4175 FAX 891-4185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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