Craig,

>No, they are selling me the car. I can resell the car or parts of it at anytime without notifying GM. GM cannot come to me and tell me to stop using the car.

You are missing the point I am making. You do not become the owner of any intellectual property rights or copyrighted aspects of the GM car. You own the "car", that specific implementation of the GM "car" but GM have not sold you, for example, the designs of their engines, or their parts, or their technology.


>In the case of software, you are buying a license for it. The publisher prohibits via the EULA from reverse engineering the software. If you resell it, you should notify the publisher, transfer the rights to the buyer, and destroy any copies that you don't transfer. The publisher can also tell you to stop using the software.

I am not arguing the licence points of MS's EULA which, I admit, I am only barely able to understand. I am refering to your statement that you "own" the car and that this statement was not quite correct in the context of this thread because there are clearly parts of the car that you do not own as stated above.

The point is that GM and MS both sell their products but under what amounts to different "licencing" arrangements - if you will. In both cases there are things you can and cannot do with the product.



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