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>Craig,
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>Pretty much it is. The practice became pretty abusive and the industry was right to shut it down.
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>It strted out harmless enough, on the old time-share systems. (I'll bet those predate you...) There, the users of the system shared system resources on a cost per minute basis. When mini-computers came along, a lot of people were used to "renting" software and saw no reason not to continue to do so. In fact, 20 years ago, the idea of "owning" a personal copy of software was pretty strange, and stayed that way until Visi-Calc.
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>regards,

Thanks for the update. I figured it would pretty much still be the same. I do remember time share.