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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:47:42 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-12-30 03:24, Chris wrote:
>> CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> Le 2024-12-21 à 03:52, Mr. Man-wai Chang a écrit :
>>>> On 20/12/2024 9:03 am, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>> <https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-users-
>>>>> hit-by-random-product-deactivation-errors/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> ​Microsoft is investigating a known issue triggering "Product
>>>>> Deactivated" errors for customers using Microsoft 365 Office apps.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It's not about "owning the software", but whether it requires a real-
>>>> time online account to work. The usual words are "standalone" and
>>>> "offline". :)
>>> 
>>> The moment you require an online account to verify if you are the person
>>> who bought the software, you don't own it.
>> 
>> You've never "owned" software, afaia. At best, you own a licence which
>> allows you to use the software within the terms of the licence. If you
>> break the terms then you can lose the right to use the software.
> 
> It's pretty easy to own the software if you use open-source, to be 
> honest. You have access to the code and can do as you wish with it as 
> long as you agree to share your modifications with the people who 
> offered it to you. That's as good as it gets outside of producing your 
> own program.

You still don't own it, but now it's purely semantics.