[cgriswald]

Apples and ladybugs are both red but (I imagine) they taste quite differently. Which one you should use probably depends on whether you’re baking a pie or dealing with pests in your garden.

Declaring them equal based on a single metric like color would be as silly as suggesting subscriptions and purchases are the same because their costs over an arbitrary period of time are roughly similar.

[amyames]

it’s owning versus rent-seeking and this is a ridiculous hair to split

my owned software doesn’t abruptly stop working when I don’t pay my “rent”