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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Because you can’t. Define “own the software”. What does that mean? Windows is literally yours? You can have all the code they used to make it? You can give it out to other people for nothing because it’s yours? You can stop other people having it too, because it’s yours?

The concept of owning software doesn’t particularly translate to the physical world because it’s not a physical thing. You have a license to use it on your computer.

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