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Old 08-19-2018, 09:33 AM   #125
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Originally Posted by Softsynth View Post
No. Generally he is getting more!
In the old days you bought much more expensive hardware, if it failed outside warranty it was either landfill or you paid for an expensive repair job and your gear disappeared for weeks or more. Then you kept your fingers crossed that the repair job was properly done.
Now if your hardware fails you swap the software to new hardware (generally better/faster and often cheaper than last time) and the software gets a number of updates which generally improve the products. Those utter bastards!
In this sense, the purchase of hardware is not analogous to the purchase of software. If you purchase a toaster, it doesn't later refuse to work without first supplying a thumbprint for identification purposes. Although the next version of the toaster may very well do that, the version that you bought does not and never will.
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