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Posted by Paul J. Miller
Aug 30, 2018 at 05:41 PM
I am not a subscriber.
I don’t believe in rental software - or ‘Software As A Sentence’.
To be fair TheBrain Technologies model of ‘Software As A Sentence’ where you get left with a working copy of the last vesion you were using if you stop paying the rent isn’t as pernicious as the Microsoft model (Office 365) where they hold your documents and files as a hostage against future payments!
Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 30, 2018 at 07:39 PM
Paul J. Miller wrote:
>... isn’t as pernicious as the Microsoft model
>(Office 365) where they hold your documents and files as a hostage
>against future payments!
Ahem. I am an Office 365 subscriber and have all my documents on my hard disk - how could they hold me or my files hostage? And even the files on OneDrive would still be accessible if I stopped prolonging my subscription.
Posted by Paul J. Miller
Aug 30, 2018 at 11:04 PM
When you stop paying the rent the program stops working !
Franz Grieser wrote:
Paul J. Miller wrote:
>>... isn’t as pernicious as the Microsoft model
>>(Office 365) where they hold your documents and files as a hostage
>>against future payments!
>
>Ahem. I am an Office 365 subscriber and have all my documents on my hard
>disk - how could they hold me or my files hostage? And even the files on
>OneDrive would still be accessible if I stopped prolonging my
>subscription.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 31, 2018 at 07:07 AM
Paul J. Miller wrote:
>When you stop paying the rent the program stops working !
Yes. That’s the way a subscription and renting works. When I stop paying the rent for my apartment, I cannot live there any longer (ok, I don’t get thrown out the very next day but am supposed to move out).
And in the case of Office 365: There are thousands of programs I can use to open the documents and continue working.
Posted by Paul J. Miller
Aug 31, 2018 at 05:41 PM
When I buy a program it keeps on working (or at least it’s supposed to keep on working) indefinately. Yes I agree there are many programs you can use to open Microsoft Office files so why not use Libre Office, it’s free !
Franz Grieser wrote:
>
>Yes. That’s the way a subscription and renting works. When I stop paying
>the rent for my apartment, I cannot live there any longer (ok, I don’t
>get thrown out the very next day but am supposed to move out).
>And in the case of Office 365: There are thousands of programs I can use
>to open the documents and continue working.