I never said that. I believe that the distinction between physical property and IP needs to legally blurred. Software should be treated more like a physical commodity than IP. If I buy a copy of OfficeXP, Microsoft should not be legally allowed to include product activation any more than Honda should not be able to sell an Accord that only works for the first two owners, but needs confirmation from Honda before it'll start up for the third owner.
Keep yer mitts off my bits.
What software do you develop? I would like to try to avoid ever using it.
My body is in very poor condition. It is failing me. I am definitely unable to make a living as a housepainter or ditchdigger, a carpenter or oilrigger.
Sorry to hear that, but that does not give you legitimate reason to push for stronger copyright laws that violate the US Constitution nor does it give you the right to turn your customers into serfs.
informs me that he's gonna liberate my work for the common good.
You have obviously brainwashed yourself. Go on, keep believing that. I obviously cannot convince you otherwise and it would be a waste of my time to continue trying. You'd find that I hold the very idea of a "common good" in deep contempt on most threads.
Bad, sad, and mad mad mad metaphor.
If you want to accurize it, you'd need to either have an open-end lease for the car -- and then try to sell what belonged to the dealer -- or, claim that if you purchase the car, you also "purchased" the "right" to start manufacturing carbon copies of it, right down to the "Honda" nameplate and VIN.
I don't think you'd get too far in either case.
"What software do you develop? I would like to try to avoid ever using it."
I'm sure you would like to avoid using it. However, I have no incentive to disclose anything to you in that regard, other than to suggest that should you in fact use it, and be found in violation of the terms and conditions of its license, you will find out what happens to those who violate such agreements.
"that does not give you legitimate reason to push for stronger copyright laws that violate the US Constitution nor does it give you the right to turn your customers into serfs."
Spare me the histrionics. I can't stand drama queens.
"You have obviously brainwashed yourself. Go on, keep believing that. I obviously cannot convince you otherwise and it would be a waste of my time to continue trying. You'd find that I hold the very idea of a 'common good' in deep contempt on most threads."
Cute. Listening to a Libertarianoid (note distinction from "Libertarian", since you now deny membership) decry a "common good" obsession is like listening to an islamist insist that he isn't "against the Jews".
Perhaps your claim might hold a bit more credibility if you had not spent much of your time on this thread advocating that which you now claim to reject.