[Retric]

You’re not buying your car outright or it would cost the full 100,000,000$ it took to design the model. Yet, you can still sell it to a third party, modify it, and take it apart to see how it works. I really don't see why software is any different. If I buy a copy of word from an office supply store, I should be able to do anything I want with it outside of selling copy's to other people. EULA that don't give new rights are unenforceable in that case because you already had an implied contract at the point of sale.

However, I suspect a EULA can gain some teeth by granting you new rights aka downloadable content etc.

PS: If you had free time and money you could probably buy software and sue to get it to work without signing a EULA. Now I would avoid doing this with Microsoft, but a smaller software shop is probably the right place to create a little precedence.

[rick888]

"You’re not buying your car outright or it would cost the full 100,000,000$ it took to design the model. Yet, you can still sell it to a third party, modify it, and take it apart to see how it works. I really don't see why software is any different."

If I give sell you a copy of a binary file, feel free to take it apart and learn from it. Just don't expect me to give you the source. This would be the equivalent of a car company giving you the design blueprints.

You also are paying for the parts+the labor and work it took to actually create it.

Unless you are fighting for the ability to give away copies of the software for free, what's your point? You can legally sell your license to most software as long as you uninstall it from your systems.

" If you had free time and money you could probably buy software and sue to get it to work"

To get what to work?