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    2 days ago

    May allow

    The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.

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        Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another person owns the copyright). If someone else controls your computer then that erodes your ownership of it.