I don’t think banning the concept of licensing would be helpful. Other things being equal, I would agree. However, if market forces push us into a choice betwe

I don’t think banning the concept of licensing would be helpful. Other things being equal, I would agree. However, if market forces push us into a choice between ordinary people being able to own things and use them freely against ordinary people being forced to pay rent on everything forever and use things only as some higher power dictates, it's not going to take long to make that choice. This is the choice that we are heading towards with the increasing use of software and, in particular, the repurposing of laws originally intended to prevent exploiting the work of others to create software so that they constrain the ordinary use of a product by the person who bought it.