Re: Detecting CPUs and cores

On Jul 31, 9:11 pm, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <l...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Twisted <twisted...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I don't know where you get this from. It makes sense for the electric
company, whose costs grow in proportion to clients' usage. But a
software vendor? The one cost that might grow in proportion to client
usage is support, and charging by the hour or by the incident for
support makes a lot more sense than charging by software usage; for
example a client better able to manage their installations without
outside help is rewarded with lower support costs in the one case but
not the other.

You're missing the point.

No, I am not.

It's not whether it makes sense, but whether you can get people to pay more.

In a proper, competitive market, you can't get people to pay much more
than your expenses, because if you try a competitor can easily
undercut your price while still operating at a profit.

Obviously, anywhere where software is being charged for by this sort
of extortionate scheme the market is insufficiently competitive, which
is not at all good for the consumer.

Perfectly logical, from a money making point of view :)

But not from a consumer rights point of view. It's high time
government stopped aiding and abetting corporations ripping off
consumers and returned to representing "we, the people". A good start
might be to strike down the legal artifice whereby corporations are
treated as a form of artificial "person". Don't let them be campaign
donors (just their employees and stockholders as individuals -- and
even then, don't let them donate to more than one party in a given
election cycle). Don't treat them as having any rights. Most
importantly, don't represent them. Represent only the actual people,
individual human beings that are capable of suffering in poverty or
dying or whatnot. The worst that can ever happen to a corporation is
bankruptcy, and given that it happens in a decent industrialized and
progressive democracy this doesn't kill the employees, just send them
looking for new work, which they should easily find if they have any
skills or talent that remain in demand.

Corporations have no special rights, particularly no right to exist or
to turn a net profit. Giving them such rights takes away from we, the
people. Corporations have their place in a society built on
competitive markets and free people with freedom of transaction. Let's
put them back in their place.

.

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