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	danramos	2011-06-15 , 20:34
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Originally Posted by marxian

As a paying customer, I am paying for it. It is not the duty of paying customers to concern ourselves with what is best for giant corporations. We don't like vendor lock-in because it is bad for consumers in the long run. Nobody is doubting the benefits for the vendor. It just might be that the interests of the vendor and those of the consumer are not perfectly aligned.

Right! If companies should be expected to do things in their own interest, then why should it be surprising when consumers/customers/public want things to go their way as well? Companies depend on the consumers more than consumers depend on companies. They need to recognize that they will lose out more in the end if they play too many of these lock-in "licensing" games and prevent people from owning the things they've rightfully bought.

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