When you buy summin'...

[Even Adam]

Do you legally own the matter of which it consists, or that specific arrangement of that matter, or that specific arrangement of some matter?

[Rum]

Why, what's the matter?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Why, what's the matter?

Don't matter, just some wild natter.

[tattuchu]

Does it matter? What does it matter? What does it matter if it matters? As a matter of fact...this may be a different matter entirely...but as a matter of fact, matter is a pretty odd word when you think about for that matter.

[Rum]

Tat -what's the matter?
Feel like a natter?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tat -what's the matter?
Feel like a natter?

Probably just word splatter.

[Even Adam]

No, but really, though?

[Rum]

I think you own all of it, lock stock and matter.

For all it matters.

[Atheist-Lite]

I think you own all of it, lock stock and matter.

For all it matters.

Software is owned by the owner and simply owning a disk doesn't make you the owner. It is 'loaned out on licence' according to various strictures preventing things like reverse-engineering and unlocking the encryption.

[Rum]

I think you own all of it, lock stock and matter.

For all it matters.

Software is owned by the owner and simply owning a disk doesn't make you the owner. It is 'loaned out on licence' according to various strictures preventing things like reverse-engineering and unlocking the encryption.

Adam has several As at A level. I suspect he knows software works differently..

[Atheist-Lite]

I think you own all of it, lock stock and matter.

For all it matters.

Software is owned by the owner and simply owning a disk doesn't make you the owner. It is 'loaned out on licence' according to various strictures preventing things like reverse-engineering and unlocking the encryption.

Adam has several As at A level. I suspect he knows software works differently..

Does he know the infection of 'differential ownership' is spreading and going to spread until we are no longer the possesive chimps we were.

[Even Adam]

Software is owned by the owner and simply owning a disk doesn't make you the owner. It is 'loaned out on licence' according to various strictures preventing things like reverse-engineering and unlocking the encryption.

Do I own the physical matter that makes up my hard-disk drive on which this software is encoded?

Adam has several As at A level. I suspect he knows software works differently..

Nope, school never taught anyone anything useful.

Does he know the infection of 'differential ownership' is spreading and going to spread until we are no longer the possesive chimps we were.

Fucking hippy.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

EA, you own the TV you watch programs on, but you don't own the programs.

[Even Adam]

EA, you own the TV you watch programs on, but you don't own the programs.

However, the picture on the screen at any given moment exists only as a combination of states of the bits of matter that make up the screen I do own.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

EA, you own the TV you watch programs on, but you don't own the programs.

However, the picture on the screen at any given moment exists only as a combination of states of the bits of matter that make up the screen I do own.

So you want to get into solipsism to raise the tone of this thread?