Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:53:08 +0700 From: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've got a major question... Message-ID: <wu7r27euugr.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20190628072716.7efaf909.freebsd@edvax.de> (message from Polytropon on Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:27:16 %2B0200)
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > The "always online & for rent" But hey, if you buy your software, you mat also decide that the one you bought 10 years ago is still plenty enough for what you do and you don't need to buy upgrades. The very few times I need to launch Word, it is a version of 2003, bought in 2003, never paid anything since. What puzzle me even more is people accepting to buy their cars through leasing: you pay every month, for 3 years, and at the end of the 3 years period, you have... nothing. While it may make sense for a business (fix cost every month, if the business stop its business, it has no car left, but a dead business needs no car), it makes no sense for individuals. And it makes even less sens for something like software that will not stop working or loose its functionalities with time. It's sounds like you are offering to lease me a hammer and the only real reason is that you will charge more at the end and I will get a hammer with a different colour handle each year. Olivier --
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