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This is fair for some reasonable time window after purchase. But I think it's okay for things to have a lifespan even if they cost money.
No. It's not a physical good that is subject to wear and tear. There is no excuse for a single player game to have a lifespan because it has some pointless online verification component.
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This is fair for some reasonable time window after purchase. But I think it's okay for things to have a lifespan even if they cost money.
As long as the life span is clearly spelled out when you purchase, so you know that you are actually buying a 10 year subscription, and not a game.
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Yes you should!
Give me one good reason why.
Ironically my pirated copy of Office Mac will work perpetually. Arrr for the win.
If your pirated copy is using "serializer", you're actually using the official Microsoft's way of volume-activating Office, you just obtained it in a yarr-harr-harr way. So it will brick just like official copies would. We need an actual crack that would patch out the license verification code or at least make it ignore the expiration date or at least make it think it's Jan 1st, 2026 for the whole eternity.
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Are you talking about the LO WASM thingy? ( https://wasm-test.libreoffice.org/ ) I have recently tried to use it, but couldn't find a way to open files from local computer in it. It showed me a fake filesystem and dragging and dropping files also didn't work. I have not used another web browser LO thing, I think. If you are talking about another thing, do you have demo site/link? > Perhaps you meant: "View -> Toolbar…
Haven't spent much time with cloud offerings, and so ymmv with these options. =3 https://en.libre-office.fr/article.php/free-online-libreoffi... https://www.collaboraonline.com/ https://www.offidocs.com/ Drag and drop will depend on browser specific security policy. =3 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online
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Haven't spent much time with cloud offerings, and so ymmv with these options. =3 https://en.libre-office.fr/article.php/free-online-libreoffi... https://www.collaboraonline.com/ https://www.offidocs.com/ Drag and drop will depend on browser specific security policy. =3 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online
What's it with the weird `=3` after your sentences?
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You didn't start using libreoffice.org like 15 years ago?
I did. SunOffice, then OpenOffice, then LibreOffice. It still isn't very good, though.
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If you consider that profit is a function of price and cost, and price is a function of scarcity (i.e. demand relative to supply), then over time, logic dictates that a strategy of profit maximization will work to create scarcity as soon as the profit curve plateaus. In economic orthodoxy, the only defense against this is the hope that there is more than one supplier and that they will remain adversarial, which is no…
This is a rather strong analysis. And especially the point on behaviour change once market growth plateaus was new to me. Thanks! I do want to nitpick on “unregulated free markets”. Because it’s almost an oxymoron. At least if one wants to rely on the theorems that prove free markets are best. Those theorems assume a bit more than just a lack of regulation. They assume no information imbalance between parties. No way…
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If you consider that profit is a function of price and cost, and price is a function of scarcity (i.e. demand relative to supply), then over time, logic dictates that a strategy of profit maximization will work to create scarcity as soon as the profit curve plateaus. In economic orthodoxy, the only defense against this is the hope that there is more than one supplier and that they will remain adversarial, which is no…
This is a rather strong analysis. And especially the point on behaviour change once market growth plateaus was new to me. Thanks! I do want to nitpick on “unregulated free markets”. Because it’s almost an oxymoron. At least if one wants to rely on the theorems that prove free markets are best. Those theorems assume a bit more than just a lack of regulation. They assume no information imbalance between parties. No way…