people will feel that software is a commodity rather than a specialized product that requires a lot of hard work and brainpower to properly develop
Even considering myself a OS defender, I kinda have to agree with your friend, no some time ago, before european patent directive were rejected I was talking about them with some of my friends about how software like vlc or filezilla _could_ dissapear because of them. Their response was "bah, I don't mind, some other program will eventually appear"... I felt a little frustated, most people think developing software is think about it, nap your fingers and it's done, be it freely available or commercial or whatever. I guess it's some kind of "educational" fault, education the average Joe lacks.
...of a story I readed some time ago in the Euro-WoW forums, about a swedish guy who bought the game, then went to a consumer-defender TV program because of the "secret montly fees", a new form of scam populating today videogames (according to the host).
I find amusing this kind of stories about consumers complaining about "conditions" clearly stated.
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people will feel that software is a commodity rather than a specialized product that requires a lot of hard work and brainpower to properly develop Even considering myself a OS defender, I kinda have to agree with your friend, no some time ago, before european patent directive were rejected I was talking about them with some of my friends about how software like vlc or filezilla _could_ dissapear because of them. Their response was "bah, I don't mind, some other program will eventually appear" ... I felt a little frustated, most people think developing software is think about it, nap your fingers and it's done, be it freely available or commercial or whatever. I guess it's some kind of "educational" fault, education the average Joe lacks.
...of a story I readed some time ago in the Euro-WoW forums, about a swedish guy who bought the game, then went to a consumer-defender TV program because of the "secret montly fees", a new form of scam populating today videogames (according to the host). I find amusing this kind of stories about consumers complaining about "conditions" clearly stated.
But I think I readed this sometime ago... even watched a TV news report about that same robot in March or so.