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...wish they would have rent control back," he says. "We got to start working on low cost housing. I haven't seen a poor landlord yet, and I've traveled this city...
Unfortunately, Microsoft isn't alone in the pursuit of regular license fees instead of one-shot sales. As the technologies and legal systems governing electronic commerce begin to solidify, we are witnessing the emergence of a class of digital rent-seekers--a group of businesses and industry associations that use the tools of encryption and a favorable legal environment to change the source of their income from occasional sales to regular monthly or annual fees. A consumer who buys a product is far less vulnerable than one who merely rents or licenses a product--and what business wouldn't want...
Outside, next to a lonely smattering of protesters, Andrew St. John and Jamie Davis hold up a sign advertising their home: "Rooms 4 Rent. Free HBO. Indoor Plumbing." St. John and Davis, both students at Florida State University, figure they can sleep on the floor for a couple of nights if it means a cool $300 for them. St. John had decided to cut class to hawk the apartment, while Davis - perhaps the bigger opportunist of the two - claimed the rental scheme actually counts as a class project...
...thing that will happen is that we'll start to think more about profits. Right now we're more worried about growing. For example, look at our new record studio. We don't plan to rent it out, we're just happy to have a space that we control and don't have to pay others to use their studio. You have to begin with the end in mind. We don't want our overhead to get too high. You go into some offices when people get a little money and they have this huge spread with a marble floor...
Homer, however, may be getting some help. A few years ago, he wound up at New Directions, an independent-living program run by Hull House in Chicago. Foster kids between the ages of 16 and 21 can rent an apartment with welfare stipends. "When you are little, you don't want people to know you are in the system, that you got taken away from your mother," says Homer. "When you get your apartment, then...