Ownership of products (especially software) is turning into a license that allows you to use the product as long as the manufacturer allows it (i.e., under cert

Ownership of products (especially software) is turning into a license that allows you to use the product as long as the manufacturer allows it (i.e., under certain conditions which of course are revocable or amendable at the corporation's whims). I'm pretty sure that if they could get away with it (today), some companies would love to sell you a license to breathe the air inside their buildings. On account, of course, of that air being expensive to suck into the building and clean and pipe throughout said edifice, and they need to 'recover' the costs associated with that.