Yes, the open software war has been lost fairly comprehensively and many programs that are routinely installed on computers are dreadful spyware, but instead of

Yes, the open software war has been lost fairly comprehensively and many programs that are routinely installed on computers are dreadful spyware, but instead of being random ill-advised junk from some forum, they're 389MB of analytics masquerading as productivity software from the very biggest corporate names in software. Who know what all that evil junk is doing with its execute bit and filesystem and network access. (https://xkcd.com/1200/ https://xkcd.com/1200/) And if you think the situation is bad with Teams and Dropbox and other "Western-style" software, it's way worse elsewhere in the world.