Re: Java and avoiding software piracy?

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:40:23 -0000, Twisted <twisted0n3@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :


You buy, and it works forever, assuming you don't change or upgrade
the hardware or OS too much

That's the theory, but in practice every few weeks Microsoft upgrades
your OS.. At any point they could introduce an incompatibility.

I do hardware upgrades of some sort at least once a year. So that
gives me LESS of a guarantee than if I rented the software for a year.

The problem is:

1. there is no guarantee the software will work when you buy. The
assumption is, once you have the executable, if you claim not to like
it, you are lying.

2. there in no guarantee it will continue to work, particularly
through a hardware or OS upgrade.


With renting, we are agreeing the software will work for a given
period of time. The agreement can be cancelled, and the program made
to stop working. During that time I have access to all the bug fixes.
My costs are laid out in advance.

As I said before, the most outrageous practice is to make me pay for
an upgrade to get a bug fixed. That is like making you pay extra for
a defective light bulb.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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