Subj : Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was:
To   : Nightfox
From : Vaclav
Date : Fri Sep 15 2017 09:38 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to Vaclav <=-

Ni>   Re: Slackware 14.2 Sale [Was:
Ni>   By: Vaclav to Nightfox on Thu Sep 14 2017 08:06 pm

Va> For me, it's the same thing missing from buying music on physical media:
Va> Resale value. Digital distribution pretty much kills the used market.

Ni> I agree there.  And I've heard the music industry doesn't (or didn't
Ni> used to) like used music sales because the publishers don't get profit
Ni> from used sales, only new sales.

Yup.  Thinking about it a little more, apart from ruining our nostalgia for
old things,a digital-only method of distribution can seriously hamper
preservation of software, music, literature, etc for the future.  What do we
leave behind once the power goes out and the last servers die?

Sorry, it's probably too early in the day to be waxing philisophical...



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