> This is just how software works It's not. It's just how spyware works, but software doesn't need to be that way. It may right now be, but this doesn't make i

> This is just how software works It's not. It's just how spyware works, but software doesn't need to be that way. It may right now be, but this doesn't make it right. Or inevitable, like a force of nature. My free, open source software doesn't silently gather data about me (and if it did, I would patch it). We have a right to run our software on our own machines, on our own terms.