From: Gary Britt 

So they wouldn't drop support, they'd just charge a *lot* of money for it.
Or are you saying when a vendor drops *free* support?

Gary

Geo wrote:
> "RobertB."  wrote in message
> news:rb28-A1082C.19272120112006{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> Ack! $218 for a dead-ended operating system? Sheesh, I can buy a NEW
>> copy of OS X for less than $100. And that's multiuser.
>
> It wouldn't be near that expensive if we expired the copyright when the
> vendor dropped support.
>
> Geo. (the way software copyrights *should* work)
>
>

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