2026-09-01 04:45 UTC
If you buy a CD with software and it gets shipped to your house, you own the disc, not the software. It’s always been this way, we are just now living in a world where the technology exists to take the software away from you after you paid.
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@matmyfta@mastodon.uno 2026-09-01 05:14
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world @jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml sure, but you were also able to sell it eventually.
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@jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 2026-09-01 07:11
Correct, I owned the license to it. It wasn’t revokable though.