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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 7988032" data-attributes="member: 6804070">Often times I agree with you on things Lanefan, but I think you're missing some big pieces here and picking and choosing what you want to be true in bits and pieces.Yes, renting is a fine understanding.But you are not. you might want to be buying, but you are only renting. That's why I said it was so important to read the legal terms when you buy something.You're picking and choosing to suite your own desires. And not in accordance with what is actually being offered for sale.DDB & Roll20 are not offering to sell you a product. They are offering to rent you access to one.FG is offering you a product to own to use has certain pre-requisites. It is up to you to maintain the hardware needed to run the program and access the content.Again, just because you want a PDF doesn't mean one is for sale.Nobody is selling you backwards compatibility. They sell you a digital product that works on a certain platform. Even a PDF has platform requirements that will someday not be supported. Those games where sold to work on DOS 3.3, Windows 98, or XP, or whatever. If you don't have a platform that runs that o/s then that is your responsibility that you upgraded to a new PC and bought Windows 7 or 10 etc. Or that you didn't buy spares to maintain the hardware.Can you imagine how stiffed the computer and software industries would be if current hardware and operating systems had to be able to run DOS 1.0 programs? You home PC would be stuck in the 80s, your phone would not be 'smart'. Maybe that's ok to you, but that would have huge socio-economic impacts the world over. That's why no government even tries to mandate such a bad idea.Sure, and I worked for a major international company that kept their corporate servers in the basement because it was the least desirable space. No one wants an office in the basement so put the servers down there, they won't complain. Worked great until the city had record rains, and the corresponding flooding. Servers don't work well under 8 feet of water.Decisions have consequences. But at least with a digital product you have options and possibilities for disaster proofing that you can never have with a printed book. After all, what did we lose with the fire in the Alexandrian Library?</blockquote>

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