Dean Hamstead wrote:
> Why should i pay for a magnetic configuration?
> I mean, lets say i wave a magnet near a disk, in
> theory i could come up with something that would do
> something usefull (sometimes i think this is how
> windows is developed)
I agree with your basic point here (especially about Windows :-), but
this is a pretty weak analogy. It's easy to counter this with statements
about the difference of effort that goes into waving your magnet as
opposed to writing code, and then go into an argument that in paying for
software you're paying for the effort taken in writing it - you're not
paying for the magnetic configuration itself, you're paying for the
amount of effort that went into creating that configuration. (Just
playing devils advocate here).
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