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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:14:28 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2025-01-02 16:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:09:27 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>> 
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:47:42 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> You still don't own it, but now it's purely semantics.
>>>> 
>>>> “Semantics” means "meaning”. So “now it’s purely meaning”?
>>> 
>>> Correct. With FLOSS you don't own the software, as it's still just a
>>> license, but you can do with it more or less whatever you want. Meaning
>>> in practice it is indistinguishable from ownership.
>> 
>> So the distinction from actual ownership ... is that meaningful or not?
> 
> I'm just going to say this again because it bears repeating:
> 
> 1) I don't need to make an account to download software to Linux.
> 2) I don't need to make an account to use the software I downloaded.
> 3) I can install Linux without needing to log into an account I have or 
> create one.
> 
> If privacy is a concern, those are interesting advantages. Even if you 
> don't care about privacy, you might be sick of logging in everywhere.

That's not unique to linux. Even macOS does 1/2 and probably 3 with a
little effort.