Originally Posted by Zaleukos
Maybe we will have to accept that we just buy the right to use the software for an unspecified period of time, rather than buy the software - period. This offends me as a consumer but in reality it is what the industry is moving towards.

You never did buy the software - just a license to use it. Just read any EULA. I'm not saying I've ever liked that but its always been that way.