They act as if they own the SOFTWARE, not you. I hate to break it to you - they DO own the software, not you. What you paid for was a license to USE their software on your hardware subject to THEIR terms and conditions. Now you don't like it, you know what to do.

brilliant. Many thanks for my first laugh of the day (at 4.30 pm)... that's all. Mod this redundant, I don't care.