Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 24 00:12:52 EST 2017

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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.

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Greg

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