On Sunday, February 9, 2014 6:37:27 PM UTC, rjf wrote: > > Well, I am unhappy that my home internet access is not free. So? >
OT, but if there is one thing that annoys me to no end then that is rent-seeking through subscription models for software. Providing internet access is something that is an on-going effort, it requires electricity, upstream bandwidth, maintenance. None of this applies to software. It is solely a government-supported way for monopolists to rip off the public. Put differently, almost no software is "for sale" nowadays, it is only for license under terms that put the consumer at an extreme disadvantage. It is as if the first sale doctrine does not exists in the realm of software. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
