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Re: [SLE] Watching DVD on SuSE 10
- From: Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:16 -0600
- Message-id: <43533DF0.7010500@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 10/16/2005 02:56 PM, Nick Zentena wrote:
>On Sunday 16 October 2005 16:49, Dylan wrote:
>
>
>>You mean you a willing to pay a company for their product, then pay them
>>AGAIN for the right to use it? Do you pay a publisher for the right to
>>open the book you bought, the producer of your food for the right to
>>cook it?
>>
>>
>
>
> Do you pay for the stove that cooks the food? Nobody ever said a DVD could be
>read without a DVD player. The problem is DVD drive companies selling
>crippled drives.
>
> Nick
>
>
The correct analogy is, "do you pay the farmer again, when you use your
stove to cook the food you already paid for?" Also appropriate would be,
"is Maytag forced to pay the farmer a royalty when it sells you the stove?"
If someone comes up with a way to read a DVD without the use of a DVD
player, then the stove becomes irrelevant. After all, food can still be
eaten raw.
>On Sunday 16 October 2005 16:49, Dylan wrote:
>
>
>>You mean you a willing to pay a company for their product, then pay them
>>AGAIN for the right to use it? Do you pay a publisher for the right to
>>open the book you bought, the producer of your food for the right to
>>cook it?
>>
>>
>
>
> Do you pay for the stove that cooks the food? Nobody ever said a DVD could be
>read without a DVD player. The problem is DVD drive companies selling
>crippled drives.
>
> Nick
>
>
The correct analogy is, "do you pay the farmer again, when you use your
stove to cook the food you already paid for?" Also appropriate would be,
"is Maytag forced to pay the farmer a royalty when it sells you the stove?"
If someone comes up with a way to read a DVD without the use of a DVD
player, then the stove becomes irrelevant. After all, food can still be
eaten raw.
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