Re: [tlug] Re: Post my article on tlug.jp?

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:31:58 -0400, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>
wrote:

> From what (very little) I understand, it seems as if this is almost what
> they are now doing with Office--isn't it something like you don't
> actually buy it, you just buy a license, which has to be renewed in 3
> years?

It always was merely a license to use the software that you bought. Just
because I have a shiny original Windows 2000 Pro CD doesn't mean that I own
Windows 2000 Pro. What I *do* own is the physical medium (the CD-ROM) on
which the O/S was transported to my machine, and a licence to use that O/S.

What's new now is that you no longer own the license. You rent it.

-- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs.  It's
absolutely not.
                        -- Bill Gates

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