In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Terence Orbison
<terence.orbison@you.dirty-psychiatric-hog.net>
wrote
on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:31:30 -0500
<ac85ca8adc8f46999d0fd52a30cb6e33@you.doddering-stranded-charity-shop-worker.org>:
> http://www.groove.net/PressRelease.c...ress_Mar102005
>
> One way to prevent piracy is not to sell software.
>
> Instead, let the suckers pay through the nose for 'pay as you go' Excel,
> Word, PowerPoint, Access. In fact not just Microsoft Office offerings,
> just about anything you are willing to pay for, you can have.
>
> Just watch the revenues roll!!
>
> You heard it here first.
>
> --
> Orbis - '/for a unique insight into the unthinkable/'

And here I thought software rental was discussed -- and discredited --
years and years back.

Sigh.

As for revenues rolling -- why rent Office when one can
copy and use (and, to some extent, own, if one modifies
it locally) OpenOffice?

Or, if one doesn't like OpenOffice (it's a "one size
contains everything" type of app, which is not to
everyone's liking), one can use piecewise solutions that
integrate nicely: kate and/or AbiWord, Gnumeric or kcalc,
various TeX solutions for the math side and a converter,
maybe a browser to display the final results and print
them out, etc.

One has to like this sort of choice.

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