Re: Detecting CPUs and cores

On Aug 5, 10:51 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It seems illogical to me that I pay the same for a program I hardly
ever use, and one I use continuously.

It seems illogical to me that I pay different amounts for things that
cost the same amount to provide to me; and it seems like a ripoff any
time someone insists that I pay vastly more for something than it
costs to provide me with it. Not to mention unfair.

You need some sort of scheme to share the cost pie of providing the service.

You're comparing apples and oranges here. You're discussing something
like electricity, where the costs of providing it scale up with their
usage; or net connectivity, or similarly. I.e. a *service*.

I'm talking about a computer program; a piece of executable code that
performs some useful function when run. Whoever wrote it and shipped
me a copy has a single large cost when they make the first ever copy,
and a single small cost when they make and ship my copy. They don't
have any ongoing costs proportional to my subsequent usage, assuming I
don't bother them for support or anything.

I should be able to buy or otherwise get this copy and then use it for
as long as it will function, the same as if I bought a car. Of course,
software can be kept functioning potentially indefinitely, modulo
keeping backups or the original install media, avoiding incompatible
updates to the operating system or whatever, continuing to have
hardware it runs on, etc.

So long as the seller
has not wangled a monopoly position, he should be free to cook up any
scheme he pleases. The market place will punish the irritating
schemes..

Including any scheme that charges a lot more than cost, and certainly
any that charges based on usage when the "provider"'s costs don't grow
proportionately to your usage but rather remain constant.

.

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