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by rick888 5753 days ago
"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?