If I couldn't resell my software over and over, I'd be homeless. I don't think you are being deceptive, but I suspect you are being facetious (hard tot ell in

If I couldn't resell my software over and over, I'd be homeless. I don't think you are being deceptive, but I suspect you are being facetious (hard tot ell in the internet). If you lived in a world where you couldn't resell your software, you'd have a different job that didn't depend on that. I imagine the people you provide value to would probably be willing to fund the development of the products they use. That is effectively what they are doing now, but they do it in a roundabout manner. If not all of them would(and there are game-theoretic reason why they probably shouldn't) maybe the ones that would could pay more, or maybe your product just wasn't worth so much to begin with (please don't take this as an affront to your product, I don't even know what it is). Different property models lead to different viable businesses. I am saying I don't like the current model because it forbids certain endeavors I would love to see, and that we had before. Of course it would be harmful to some business plans that currently work. I just prefer the alternative.