nostr:npub19mptcg4nywj8x2ew0g457r0y7d95pqh5y263ctgjf04wj2yhhahqfuzsye >What about apps that you’ve purchased and therefore own in perpetuity?
On appel's cr..app store and googles played store, it's usually the case that you're paying for a license to use a proprietary cr..app and you don't actually own such software.

Previously, proprietary software rentiers would at least provide a perpetual license and allow you to resell the license, but now, on iOS for example, it is impossible to resell licenses or even make a backup that's not 100% dependent on apple and if apple learns that a used has died, they delete the relevant apple account and thus ensure that none of the cr..apps can run anymore, ebooks read or music listened to.

Doing so is usually still illegal (for not), as intentionally sabotaging something that would otherwise work perpetually is fraud, but of course apple always gets away with it.


Software is not a physical thing, so you cannot own it, but if it's free software, you can control is to do your computing as you wish.