> It's not even your operating system, or computer. You can't do anything you want with them. For BSD, you have to keep the copyright, for Linux, you have to re

> It's not even your operating system, or computer. You can't do anything you want with them. For BSD, you have to keep the copyright, for Linux, you have to redistribute the source if you redistribute the binary, and for Windows you can't really do anything. That is clearly not what the author meant. The author means that pay-once software or free software, you can download it to your computer, then go live in a hut, and can do whatever you want there, with no restrictions being imposed on you from the software license. The restrictions only come about when you want to distribute (optionally modified) binaries or source code. With subscription software, the restrictions come about even when you are in your hut, and you have to continue paying the software creator even if you are not interested in getting updates or using their cloud service (assuming it's possible for you to even run the software without connecting to their cloud service). I am not saying anything about whether the latter is a just business model or, but your quoted point is definitely invalid.