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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by cratermoon on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:00PM (#24246364)
Shows how long I've been around. I still think of commercial software as something you buy and own.
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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by tomnipotent on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:10PM (#24249222)
If you can't resell it, you don't own it. Do you have examples of commercial software that you were allowed to resell?
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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by sireat on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:04AM (#24250170)
There used to be a pretty big business in US of reselling expensive software licenses (think AutoCad etc). I remember Autodesk trying to stop it and not being able to which brings us to the current day.

Of course now that everything is under pay as you go SaaS model, that's out of window.

Still in Europe it is legal (http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=124...) and people do resell mundane licenses such as Windows.

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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by Sharlin on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:29PM (#24253571)
Pretty much everything was resellable in Europe at least. Used computer games especially were a fairly big thing.
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