Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:19:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206061917360.69024@tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20120606182153.3cc2ee07.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CADy1Ce7MihpmMowc265%2BS_RKorMO3KEKsCgr=pdnjg2jzq-dYQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120605203717.5663bdf7.freebsd@edvax.de> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1206051653120.5642@nber6> <20120605181055.4af65fdb@scorpio> <4FCF0772.8000609@FreeBSD.org> <4FCF1891.9020006@cran.org.uk> <4FCF2521.6090006@FreeBSD.org> <20120606062437.41f48a9e@scorpio> <4FCF352F.7030509@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120606182153.3cc2ee07.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> Maybe a common marketing and sales model comes from software > to hardware too: You don't actually own the hardware! When > you give money to the manufacturer (maybe through vendors > or retailers), you receive hardware _plus_ a limited set > of rights which you may exercise on that hardware, maybe > for a limited time. By purchasing the hardware that way, > you may even have "implicitely signed" a kind of agreement anyway NOBODY are forced to buy micro-soft software. Nobody is forced to buy a PC. Doing this with PC market will result in larger market share for non-Wintel hardware.
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