Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:16:22 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've got a major question... Message-ID: <23830.1302.518060.256402@jerusalem.litteratus.org> 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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Olivier writes: > The very few times I need to launch Word, it is a version of 2003, > bought in 2003, never paid anything since. I have heard it said 95+% of the people composing a text document only use abilities present in Word for Windows 2.0. > 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. Aesthetically, some people like driving a late-model car and are willing to pay for the satisfaction. Operationally ... it is my understanding that - especially as one goes further up-scale - the lease includes a care package. The more miles put on the car, the greater the value of free dealer-provided routine maintenance. There may be other reasons, which are left as an exercise for the reader. > And it makes even less sens for something like software that will > not stop working or loose its functionalities with time. That depends on the software. If your program is _entirely_ stand-alone, then you're correct. But if it depends on programs not under your control ... and they're getting upgraded ... then it can "lose" functionality. Example: Novell, or better yet Banyan, networking. For some, leasing is a bad deal and they should buy/find a free alternative. But if leasing were that bad, it wouldn't be a growing market. (Plenty of stupid out there; plenty of not-stupid too.) Respectfully, Robert Huff
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