Why do we not own our software and only own the ‘license’ to use the software?

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Like I don’t understand why this even became a thing and who even thought of it?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I work in the industry.
All that was said here is true but how it was explained to me (here in Europe) I that a reseller of the SAP solutions started to buy licences and resold them to other customers.
SAP went to justice to stop that arguing that they sold to a particular customer but the European justice enforced the right to sell what you had bought (not the software itself but the perpetual licence).

So almost all the software editors started to sell SaaS (software as a Service), you rent it and will never own your licence again. What it means is that you may use the software for a certain amount of time but when you stop to pay the software stops and you do not have anything to resell.

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