XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-09-04 18:53, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 9/4/2025 9:30 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> On 2025-09-04 8:13 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-09-04 16:57, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-09-04 7:45 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2025-09-04 16:36, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> 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?   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm not supposed to care about whether a developer gets compensated.   
   >>>   
   >>> I make rational decisions for my best interest and assume they do the   
   >>> same.   
   >>   
   >> What are you looking for? Applause?   
   >   
   >   
   > It surprises me to see Alan talking like the hypocrites I see mocking   
   > paying the normal price.  The same people who pretend to be ethical just   
   > doing the self-serving thing and bragging about it.   
      
   So is it ethics...   
      
   ...or the support you claim you get by purchase it for ten times the cost?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>> < snip >   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> 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.   
   >>> Free forever? Or for installation problems?   
   >>   
   >> I didn't realize that as an Apple user, you were incapable of looking   
   >> this up online. Here is your answer: "built-in virtual support, free   
   >> online and community resources, in-person free help at select centers."   
   >>   
   >> I imagine that the next question is: "which centers?" or "which   
   >> resources?" or "what does free mean?" Grab yourself a dictionary and   
   >> ask a responsible grown-up to help you.   
   >   
   >   
   > Many people don't need direct support.  But Microsoft delivers on making   
   > their product accessible.  Paying retail price for a product key says   
   > that you either want that service or you just want the convenience, I   
   > had media for Win10 at the time, getting a DVD-ROM was useless,   
   > wasteful, even if cheaper for the System Builder license.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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