> Regardless of whether you like Flash, this should be yet another ominous warning that you do not really own your computer anymore. This is definitely true wi

> Regardless of whether you like Flash, this should be yet another ominous warning that you do not really own your computer anymore. This is definitely true with regard to applications and services. People give rms a hard time for going on about free software, but he saw this coming. "One assumption is that software companies have an unquestionable natural right to own software and thus have power over all its users. (If this were a natural right, then no matter how much harm it does to the public, we could not object.) Interestingly, the U.S. Constitution and legal tradition reject this view; copyright is not a natural right, but an artificial government-imposed monopoly that limits the users’ natural right to copy." -rms[1] I don't suggest jumping into the deep-end with free software mentality without full consideration. However, Google Play Music went under recently[2] with all of the content that people bought becoming potentially unavailable, so it's worth thinking about how much we don't own. [1]- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf [2]- https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/google-play-music-dead/ https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/google-play-music-dead/