Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:14:17 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've got a major question... Message-ID: <20190628101417.2df36e86@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <wu7r27euugr.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20190628072716.7efaf909.freebsd@edvax.de> <wu7r27euugr.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Hollywood, Panavision does not sell cameras, they rent the cameras. A rent model could be ok for gear with mechanical parts that require maintenance work. A rent model could be ok, if you need every 10 years a hammer, for just one day. A rent model could be ok, if I need a book for a week. A rent model could be ok, for online software, that needs security updates. If I need a book for ever, because I like to add hand written notes. I will pay for the book and I expect that I always have got access to the book. I don't want a cloud service, I just want to draw pictures and produce music and I want to store the data at home. I expect that the apps and the operating system don't have serious bugs and if there should be bugs, I expect to get repair work for free as in beer. I'm willing to buy the software, I'm willing to buy new features, I don't need security updates for software, that is not security related. I expect that access to everything humans need is as much socially acceptable as possible. "Needed" is more than just what humans need to stay alive. It's unfortunately impossible to give away everything for free. However, if somebody works to get a piano, maybe a virtual software piano, nobody should come and take the piano away, when the owner becomes a retired person, unable to continue paying the rent for the piano. It should be possible to buy the piano or virtual piano, so that it is possible to continue using it in less good times. We know what speculator whim has done to rental prices for shelter. In Germany a lot of persons on average wage are already unable to pay for their apartment. Nowadays it is nearly impossible to get layout markers, screen tone and all that material anymore, the world changed, it is replaced by software. If you provide software and rent software layout markers, software screen tone etc. you might think it's the same as it was for paying for real markers etc., but no it isn't, we still need to pay for the hardware, you still need to replace tips of tablet pencils etc., you even need to replace hardware that is still working, because support gets dropped.
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