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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: cpu-x
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:07 -0000 (UTC)
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 18:35 this Saturday (GMT):
> On 5/9/2024 8:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 08:28:23 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-05-08 12:56 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> CPU-Z is only freeware, CPU-X is Free Software.
>>>
>>> For an end user, there is no difference.
>> 
>> Yes there is. Your freeware comes with a long EULA with a whole lot of
>> conditions you have to agree to, that most people click through without
>> even reading, 
>
> That's their fault.
>
>
>
>> only for it to bite them later. Like being able to run
>> hidden telemetry on your system and harvest your data for their own
>> purposes.
>
>
> If it's in the license it's not hidden.
>
> If you agree to it, it's not "spying" (like that worm shitv believes).

When have you read a license?

>> Free Software doesn’t try to con you into things you didn’t know you were
>> agreeing to.
>
> What, you never read that stupid, impenetrable, restrictive GuhNoo GPL 3 
> (under which CPU-X is released)?
>
> It's twice as long and MUCH more restrictive than the CPU-Z license.
>
> It has a SHITLOAD of "you must" or "you may/may not" or other 
> conditional clauses restricting your freedom to use the software, far 
> far far more than the CPU-Z license, and far more than most proprietary 
> licenses I've read.
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