About (especially "Outliner") subscriptions and the like (NOT OT here, but not at all indeed...)

Posted by 22111
Nov 27, 2020 at 07:57 AM

Genetics? I gave the example of a developer who priced accordingly not to color, but to alleged financial power, by the buyer’s country, and I said I could accept that as a viable pricing policy. See below for “racism” against Europeans / EU citizens.

I forgot to give some extra-blatant rent example. Some 15 years ago, I encountered WinTask(.com), in the search of a macro program, hadn’t heard of AHK up to then. Pricing was outrageous, especially since for 500 euro (?) plus VAT, I could NOT then deploy the .exe onto another pc of mine having not installed the paid program as well (that would probably have been another 200 euro or dollar or the like, don’t remember), so in the meanwhile, I treated that program as non-existent; thankfully, I discovered AHK, so I could afford my stance.

Just before yesterday, I, by accident, encountered WinTask again, and under the tab “Buy” - hoho! -: Runtime 200$ p.a., licence to create for the same pc or for runtimes, 500$, and licence to create executables without the WT runtime to be deployed first, “Request” for the, again, just annual, license.

At the time, the MS web browser was ubiquitous, and WT was quite “strong” with that, so at the time, I had some interest, cooled by their pricing; today, it’s just become ridiculous…

More and more “developers” / software vendors don’t let you buy their shice in dollars if you are in the EU: Either up-front or, at the latest, when you pay by your EU credit card - it’s become impossible to get, e.g. a U.S., or some other non-EU credit card, for most of us here -: They either sell to you for euros (dollar to euro 1:1 instead of currently 1.18 to 1, and that’s why…), or not at all; on top of that, you pay 20 or 25 p.c. VAT.

So that was “racial profiling” yesterday; today they tell you, “After you buy [sic] xyz, it can be used for one year.”

And people who mix up buying and renting, instead of discarding, HAVING discarded for the last 10 years or so: now it’s too late… - are responsible for the current mess, where somebody with the wrong “genetics”, as the other poster calls it, will have to do without any - on YT, there’s a “funny” (???) vid showing some Native-African school class and their teacher, exercising MS Word et al. on paper and on the chalkboard - in their case for the lack of pc’s, primarily.

Do the maths: 3 dozen “core” programs, 20 bucks a month each, makes 1,000 bucks a month incl. VAT, and yes, it’s the same stance as with allowing total, open corruption to politicians, by voting again for them: Others see they can do it, so they do it on their turn, and that’s why very soon, software in general will not be available anymore but for the right “genetics” and the right purses. (And, “you” being preoccupied by “Covid”, EU wants to discard ALL new non-electric cars by… 2025, oh yeah, I don’t make that up. Prices for used cars will sky-rocket over here, and if we don’t want to buy from that always grinning what’s-his-name-again (he’s now even richer than Billyboy, I read just yesterday in some paper), we should probably emigrate to Africa and drive some old, sturdy, polluting Mercedes over there where they allow for the pollution occurring where the “consumption” occurs, instead of hiding the former from the latter in perfect hipocrisy. You vote for politicians who not only fill their pockects but then also try to ruin you, and you “vote”, with your rentals which are now called “buying”, for software which tries to do the same. Thus, reminding you of this blatant parallel in your obviously not very thought-thru choices, seems useful, in order to trigger that certain “clic”, i.e. your possible insight into the very basics.)