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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7988143" data-attributes="member: 29398">I don't think so, but I'm wondering if we're talking about entirely the same things here...If it's represented as a "buy" - that is, I pay money once, after which I own the product just as if it was a physical thing - then to put it as a "rent" in the legalese IMO borders on fraud.You keep referencing these three specific platforms, which while relevant to most here are of no consequence to me.  This matters because... ...you then say things like this, which while maybe true on those specific platforms isn't always true on others where pdf's are offered for sale (legally).I know.  That's my complaint here.My take on it is that when things like OSes are redesigned or remade (e.g. the jumps from Windows 7 to 8.x to 10) the designers should be writing backward compatibility into those programs for every previous version; either as a bug-free emulator or by embedding the real thing.I mean, hell, my Win 8.x machine that I'm typing this on has a fully functional Win 7 emulator baked in, which is what I use about 99.9% of the time.  Had this been done for each jump then the software would already be written each time, meaning that my machine would be able to emulate whichever version of DOS/Windows I told it to.They wouldn't be stiffed at all; other than those less-than-ethical companies* whose business model is built on forcing people to repeatedly buy new versions of things they already have.* - I'll probably get in hot water with the mods if I start naming any...My PC would be just the same as what I have now, only it'd also be able to run older programs just as well.  My phone would be just as smart as it currently is...and from what I can tell, android at least has some sense of backward compatibility perhaps due to its open-source status.Heh, I hear ya - it was a direct lightning hit on the servers' building that got ours. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In some ways I agree, but in other ways I see anything digital as being far more - for lack of a better word - fragile, or ephemeral, than things I can hold in my hand.</blockquote>

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