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nfw2last Sunday at 10:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Why not make the store change what they sell from being a license and making it a product as the consumer expected?

Because we have a free market not a command economy? Publishers can sell whatever they want


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Telaneolast Sunday at 10:27 PM

Then they can stop pretending and actually sell it as a service. What they're doing now is doing one thing (selling it as a product), while getting the benefits of the other (selling it as a service).

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paulryanrogerslast Sunday at 10:30 PM

> Publishers can sell whatever they want.

Indeed. They just can't commit fraud or false advertising.

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