Re: [Update] 7-Zip 26.02

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 00:49:00 +0000, "p-0 0-h the cat (coder)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 30/06/2026 23:28, Shadow wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:43:00 +0000, "p-0 0-h the cat (coder)"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 28/06/2026 22:41, Shadow wrote:
>>>
>>>> 	I just though the discussion of if a program is freeware or
>>>> not was silly. If it's free, it's freeware. If you have to pay for it,
>>>> it's not.
>>>
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>>>
>>> From: Shadow <[email protected]>
>>> Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
>>> Subject: Re: [OT]WARNING: Linux Age Checks
>>> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:35:44 -0300
>>> Organization: A noiseless patient Shadow
>>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> 	"If you have to submit your personal data to use any software,
>>> it's not freeware."
>>>
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>> 
>> 	Your personal data makes billionaires  Need I list them? You are paying even more
>> than if you paid cash.
>> 	According to xxxx, I have "severe diabetes". So no decent
>> hospital plan will take me. Too much of a liability. Only the crummy
>> ones, that don't care if you die or not, and charge double.
>> 	Someone typed that into my medical record. I'm not diabetic.
>> Never have been. Nobody in my family is.
>> 	Expensive.
>> 	[]'s
>
>Yunno, I swear we were discussing freeware. So, you are saying "Someone 
>typed 'you are diabetic' into your medical record.". I suspect not using 
>freeware or the data made public. It's a data input issue. Did they have 
>to submit your data to gain access and use the software. I suspect their 
>username and password was enough. Probably. What's your point. Are you 
>blaming the programmers, the billionaires or who? and for what. Confused.

	The billionaires. Google refuses to redact my medical file
because they get paid by health insurance groups for lists of "high
risk patients".. Bad for business if it turns out their data was
false.
>
>If you have to submit your data to use a program, your email address 
>say, you are obliged to do so. It's an obligation. You say that's a 
>cost

	Of course it is. Private data is one of the most valuable
commodities today.

>, and it's 'silly' to argue otherwise
	
	"silly" is rather a mild word. I have naughtier ones but Ron
and the other alt.comp.freeware moderators  would probably object.

>, so it's not freeware, so are 
>some obligations more equal than others. Yunno, because the obligations 
>in the GPL have a cost.

	None at all. You don't have to download, alter and publish the
source code. Or contribute in any way to the developers.
	Just download the program. On its own, it's freeware.
	7-Zip. Download, unpack, use.

>Those restrictive freedoms. Perhaps like animals 
>some obligations are more equal than others on the GPL funny farm. When 
>it suits you.

	And now you're calling Stallman a fascist. Or is it a
communist? I forget which one is the bad one this week.
	[]'s
>
>
>
>> 	Personal data, stamps, postcards, donations to "worthy
>> causes". If you have to pay, it's NOT freeware.
>> --
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>
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