[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users topa y rolyalties

[Joe Blais]

>
> That's also a philosophy from the early days of Xerox.  Copiers were
> leased on a cost per page printed and the salesmen questioned a lot of
> the research at PARC saying, "Where's the click?"  IE: how are we going
> to be able to charge per use for it?
>
> Maybe MS read the book as well?  ;-)
>
> George Cohn
>

Didn't you need "copier keys" in those days?  We had counter devices for
each department that had to be inserted into the Xerox machine to make it
work.  Monthly we reported the count.

.not knows and can (and probably does) record (report?) every mouse click.

Joe