User: Virvel

The customer is the problem

On: Software Transferability? (or the lack of it)

I think the real problem is with the customers, not the companies that
sell software.

Allthough I totally hate the concept that I shouldn't be allowed to
sell an item I've purchased, whether it's a tangible thing or an
abstract notion, I feel that in general everybody should have the
right to try to sell whatever they want under whatever conditions they
feel like.

If someone want to sell a car with the restriction that it may not be
used on tuesdays, well, let them try. In the end, it will be the
customers who decide whether this is "allowable" or not by choosing to
buy or not to buy the car.

Companies have tried to screw its customers since the dawn of time,
and they will continue to do that to whatever extent we allow them to.
If we disagree with a certain practice, then our main weapon is to
boycott the product or seller.