Your comment is summarized by the last sentence of my comment. Except for: > When you buy software you are agreeing that you don't own that software. You are

Your comment is summarized by the last sentence of my comment. Except for: > When you buy software you are agreeing that you don't own that software. You are instead buying a license to use that software. This is incorrect in many jurisdictions, including the EU, regardless of what the EULA or whatever would make you believe, for software distributed in the way Microsoft Windows is [1] [1]: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=124564&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=2581991 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc... Instead ownership works similar to as it would for, for example, a book. You don't own the IP, but you do own the book. Also I don't own the gardener either, the distinction doesn't even matter.