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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If you really “owned” it then it would be legal for you to make and sell copies of it all by yourself. The company that sold it to you obviously doesn’t want that, so by legal definition if you’re forbidden from doing certain stuff with it then you don’t “own” it

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