Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by chmod775 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:57PM
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Your comment is summarized by the last sentence of my comment.
Except for:
> When you buy software you are agreeing that you don't own that software. You are instead buying a license to use that software.
This is incorrect in many jurisdictions, including the EU, regardless of what the EULA or whatever would make you believe, for software distributed in the way Microsoft Windows is [1]
Except for:
> When you buy software you are agreeing that you don't own that software. You are instead buying a license to use that software.
This is incorrect in many jurisdictions, including the EU, regardless of what the EULA or whatever would make you believe, for software distributed in the way Microsoft Windows is [1]
[1]: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
Instead ownership works similar to as it would for, for example, a book. You don't own the IP, but you do own the book.
Also I don't own the gardener either, the distinction doesn't even matter.