Will 9th Circuit “First Sale” doctrine ruling boost F/OSS?
My first thought on the ruling, which upholds the end user license agreements that render software an object you don't own, was that this ruling was very wrong-headed. In the traditional sense, if you buy something, you own it, in every meaningful sense of the word, abstract legal notions be damned.
As they say, possession is nine tenths of the law.
But then, my second thought was that how many businesses are now going to be uncomfortable realizing they're paying for an asset they do not and cannot own?
A Personal Plea to the Fine Folks at DiGiorno
When you stop sneaking a cardboard backing under your pizzas of the exact same size as your pizza that you instruct people to "place right on the oven rack", I'll stop nearly setting my apartment on fire.
You see, frozen pizza dough and cardboard have approximately the same texture, and it throws me off when there's no external visual cue to not insert flammable materials into my oven.
Ironically, Tombstone doesn't try to murder me like this: their pizza is slightly lesser in diameter than the cardboard, making it quickly obvious what I have to do to avoid culinary suicide-by-fire.
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