• partial_accumen
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    81 month ago

    It feels like they’re using the definition/use case of software licensing and applying it to motor vehicles. As in, “If I have to get a license from you, then you are the owner and I am just the licensee”.

    Its a bonkers misapplication of the word, but that never stops a Sovcit.

    • @hyperhypervisor
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      91 month ago

      actually, that usage makes sense if you realize that you’re licensing the roads, not the car.

      • partial_accumen
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        41 month ago

        Except the Sovcit above is extending the “license” to the equal state ownership of the car.

        • @hyperhypervisor
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          51 month ago

          Oh I’m not defending the Sovcit in the slightest. I’m just pointing out that the license still works in the same way as a software license, but the license is for the roads.