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Old 11-30-2007, 11:27 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by bingle View Post
This is the part of the equation that's changing, though. Currently, that's the way it works - people have to pay for a copy of everything in order to subsidize the massive up-front costs of the product. But the fact of the matter is that it's easy and free to copy certain products, and that's not going to change.
I assume when you say "copy" you are talking about functionality and not implementation... such as Open Office which is free (as in Libre) vs MS Word which is not free.

Or, are you saying that since MS Word can be coppied easily it is ok to copy it?

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