Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: eForth specific words? Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:21:44 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <87efyhh37b.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <5a233dca-0c96-4ad8-8896-a6f340de9640@googlegroups.com> <7f673166-d6ed-4ea1-b2ce-3fcb19aa074c@googlegroups.com> <41e06454-b634-4e6e-a4d0-1ee80bf1543d@googlegroups.com> <87innth910.fsf@nightsong.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="002c202f405a6329a059cf0e1b3372bc"; logging-data="3724"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18TJvWljHbtbqHrabH5PWwc" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6F09QSRGzBdSORbJFwStsRsxcpo= sha1:uvXsD76dM0JMVSuD4dfAA4fjMjI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:55292 rickman writes: > I never buy DRM pubs just because I never know when the DRM will crap > out and I lose the pub. As I said in another post, the one time I > bought a DRM music CD I couldn't use it for what I intended. Yep, that happens all the time even when it works at first. Remember divx? Everyone's video library broke when that company shut down. Microsoft PlaysForSure (audio DRM, called PlaysForShit by its critics)? Same thing IIRC. Aww heck, there's a whole WP article section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Obsolescence > Many times when I use licensed software the license gets in the way of > working. I put up with the license because there is no alternative > for FPGA work. I'm less fussy about software that I'm use for work, where it's basically a business calculation whether I get more immediate value from carrying out the task at hand with the tool than the tool costs up front. Plus, it's usually the company paying for it anyway. But I still prefer FOSS so I at least have some chance of fixing it if it breaks. That's been a route out of multiple jams over the years ;-).