Gregory Ewing wrote, on February 23, 2017 9:13 PM > > Deborah Swanson wrote: > > As for it phoning home... Wonder what value they think this has, other > > than giving them a nosecount of how many active copies there are at > > any given time. > > It gives them a kill switch. If they decide they don't want > it to be free any more, they can stop us from using it. > > "Free" to Microsoft is all about beer, not freedom. > > -- > Greg
Ah, now that you mention it, a kill switch does sound right up Microsoft's alley. Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while I'm using it. Buggers, are we getting to the point that we need to be using VPNs all the time now? It's sorta like sex. Remember what it was like before STDs got so deadly? Or street racing and playing chicken - that'll end you up in jail now, nevermind that the drivers are consenting adults. Not much is done bythely with thoughtless freedom anymore, and we have to protect ourselves from prying gubmint and corporate eyes, ears and wires. Isn't freedom what the USA always used to be about? Makes me sick when they say soldiers are fighting for our freedom in the Middle East. We don't have any freedom or privacy or rights of ownership nowadays for anyone to be fighting to defend. But of course it's all lies now anyway. Deborah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
