Re: The new licensing model

[Dan Strychalski <dski@ms17.hinet.net>]

"pap" <pap@tiac.net> wrote --

>   But I do feel that the power you speak of is based not on some excess
>   larceny in the heart of management but in the licenses they are
>   granted to use it by not having to disclose one jot of code, along
>   with the rest of the world. I do not see them being unique in this
>   regard other than having overachieved at it.

When a certain widely-used resource that is built into the
hardware is suddenly disabled in every big-name program on
the market, and then is magically re-enabled when the
monopoly is complete, there is excess larceny somewhere.

Dan Strychalski