        Comments     Threshold   RE: Why is the FCC involved? By
mckinney on 8/4/2009 6:03:21 PM , Rating: 2 You see when Apple
sell me something I OWN that item.  Not to interrupt your rant,
but you own the license, not software. Have you ever read your
Windows license? You get user rights, not ownership. When you
"buy" your software from any of the major companies you only
license it and agree to it before you run it. Here is the Vista
License:   RE: Why is the FCC involved? By dark matter on
8/4/2009 8:26:03 PM , Rating: 2 I know.  Even the phsycial
product itself I don't "really" own. Because all of it is
covered by patents, liceneses.  In fact, probably ten times more
effort has gone into protecting each component of that
particular product than has gone into producing it. And that is
probably a conservative estimate.  Something has gone terribly
wrong if that is the case, don't you think?