On 29/12/2018 23.03, nospam wrote:
In article , Roger Blake
wrote:


there is no conspiracy to control what users do.

It is not a conspiracy, I agree. A willing, an interest in knowing what
they do... ;-)


then you won't be using computers anymore, since nearly all software
today has activation in some form due to rampant piracy.

Not FOSS. None of the software that I use requires activation.

that's not representative of the industry and you know it.

Well, now, that is not true either. Even if it is 15%, you can not toss
that away as "irrelevant". And that on the user side of things; in the
server side, the tables are turning the other way round.

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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.