On 09/18/2012 02:57 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > In Germany there is a legal market for used software including OEM versions > of Windows and Office. > I think the used market is partly driven by local laws and how the courts have or have not enforced the EULA.
Back to the renting issue, IMHO one should look past the hype and try to determine if renting/SaaS is good deal overall. If you are not using bleeding edge features of your office suite then updating the software often may not make sense except when support for your version lapses. I suspect most users do not use much outside the common core features of any office suite (LO, AOO, MSO, etc) thus upgrading is not needed when a new version comes out. LO and AOO being FOSS do not cost users any money to obtain. Thus LO and AOO are not obsessively concerned about how fast users upgrade from previous versions. MS, however, needs people to buy new versions of MSO. Thus methods such as deprecating older file formats or adopting a rental model will be used. The rental model, in theory, guarantees a stabler cash flow whether the software rental is good for users is another matter. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/MS-raised-prices-so-people-will-now-start-renting-their-office-products-instead-tp4008030p4008079.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
