It's the fine print, of course. You buy the car. You don't buy a license to use the car. It is physically yours to hang dice from the rearview mirror, put nasty bumper stickers, and paint lime green if you want. The car you buy is a unique object, where as the physical software package you buy is not a unique object. (Careful, or I'll go pull out my Fry essay on "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"!)

When you buy a book, you buy the right to read it...not stick in a paragraph or take one out. I know what you're thinking, you can sell the book. But you sell the right to read the book. I agree that it seems like common sense that we *should* be able to sell our licenses to software as well.

Know where I can find some virtual fuzzy dice? < s >

>I've always wondered how a software product is different that the GM car that I buy. I can sell it to anyone without GM's permission. I can modify it any way I want without GM's permission. (They don't have to warrant the car if I make changes.)
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>Thanks for your thoughts, expertise and have a Happy!
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>Mike