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minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIf 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.
minus-squarejsnfwlr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoCorrect, I owned the license to it. It wasn’t revokable though.
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoWhich do you want? A single physical disc that is a tangible product? Or access to a server that has data redundancy? You seem to want the guarantee of high availability servers but expect to claim ownership of the data. You never owned the data, and you don’t now.
minus-squareMateo@mastodon.unolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months ago@Couldbealeotard @jsnfwlr sure, but you were also able to sell it eventually.
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI don’t believe resale was ever part of the licensing.
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.
Correct, I owned the license to it. It wasn’t revokable though.
Which do you want? A single physical disc that is a tangible product? Or access to a server that has data redundancy?
You seem to want the guarantee of high availability servers but expect to claim ownership of the data. You never owned the data, and you don’t now.
@Couldbealeotard @jsnfwlr sure, but you were also able to sell it eventually.
I don’t believe resale was ever part of the licensing.