John Deere and GM want to destroy the very idea of ownership

[grumbler]

I can and do run my computer with software not from Microsoft.  The idea that my computer is owned by Microsoft is absurd.  Yet I freely admit that I make no claim that I should be able to copy and alter Microsoft's programs.  That's part of the EULA.

Do these companies actually claim to own cars and tractors equipped with the software though or just to own the software? The article makes such a claim (that it is the former) at the beginning but later it only gives examples of the latter.

I dunno.  As I have said, the article is stupid through and through, and I think it shouldn't even have been posted here, let alone posted with an asinine thread title.