Lutz Kretzschmar <lut### [at] stmuccom> wrote in article
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> 
> Try asking BMW whether they will let you drive their car for free now,
> because later you will definitely buy one<g>.
> 
C'mon Lutz, do you think anybody actually OWNS a BMW? :)

Indeed, one of the great glowing promises of Java was that it 
would allow people to use software on a pay-as-you-go basis. 
Not that I think that's very feasable, but that's how people pay
for cars, and maybe there's an idea for some entrepreneur to 
work out -- a system of paying for shareware on an installment
plan. 

Some of us who work as programmers make a lot of money and
forget that others, even in the great rich USA, barely make enough
to pay rent and eat. $90 at one time just isn't there. It's not like
skipping movies for a couple of months. Yet that price works out 
to less than two dollars a day, and never mind that it's the same 
amount in the long run, a couple dollars a day is a lot easier for
some people to make than $90 all at once.

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