XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-09-04 7:45 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   > On 2025-09-04 16:36, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >> On 9/4/2025 12:09 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>>>> The point is that you don't like the Mac because it costs too   
   >>>>>>> much (in your opinion)...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> ...but decry someone as a "cheapskate" for not wanting to spend   
   >>>>>>> ten times as much for a Windows license as he needs to.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> To get it the right way, what I paid is Microsoft's price   
   >>>>>> including support I would never use, one can also get a System   
   >>>>>> Builder license for a bit less.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> And the story suddenly changes!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> NO, Alan, YOU have changed, to be one of unethical cheapskates.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not at all.   
   >>>   
   >>> How is it "unethical" to purchase something legally for the lowest   
   >>> available price.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> If you cared about the businesses you patronize, you'd want them to be   
   >> compensated for their work.   
   >   
   > You're getting more and more ridiculous, dude.   
      
   How is the desire to see a developer get compensation for his product   
   ridiculous?   
      
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   >> They give you a phone number to call for assistance.   
   > Do they?   
   >   
   > For assistance forever and for all purposes?   
      
   Free technical help for all issues related to their own software. If a   
   third-party doesn't run, they won't help you unless, obviously, it can   
   be proven that their software is the cause of the problem.   
      
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