I've never really thought about renting software, it might make it more practical to get legitimate copies of something like photoshop, which is fairly expensiv

I've never really thought about renting software, it might make it more practical to get legitimate copies of something like photoshop, which is fairly expensive. For the web (and really and computer software) I am in the more liberal camp of http://unlicense.org/ http://unlicense.org/ (no affiliation to them) I think opening up everything to the public domain will speed innovation, among other things.