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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by throwaway314158 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:05PM (#26007536)
A dandelion can either be a weed or part of a salad. It's a matter of context.

> You can call it subscription based, you can also call it user lock-in or remote killswitch.

If you stop paying for your gym membership and your access card gets automatically revoked, do you consider that to be some kind of physical instantiation of malware?

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Re:Proprietary Software Is Often Malware by reificator on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:31PM (#26007888)
If the muscles I built at that gym were incompatible with any other gym, yeah I probably would.

Metaphors don't work as well as people think.

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