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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You don’t own it because nobody sold it to you. When you paid money, you only paid money for a license. the vendor didn’t think it was a good idea to sell you the program, and the past 40 years of legal cases have proven that to be a good choice on their part.

It’s like any digital good, unless you can make working copies without some sort of vendor validation, you don’t really own even the binary version.

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