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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by karussell on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:43PM (#7746297)
The same arguments you have for 'renting' apply for 'buying' software. Why has software a cost associated at all when the copy (to download) is produced via 0$?

It doesn't make 'sense' too. Maybe in the very long term you are right and software as well as digital goods can be consumed for free (or via paying a special tax)

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Re:Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME by shmerl on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:49PM (#7746331)
Lot's of software is sold without DRM just fine. So I don't understand what your point was. I never said about anything about getting all for free. The discussion was about that renting doesn't make sense for digital goods (buying does).
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