XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On 8 Apr 2025 22:55:30 GMT, vallor wrote :   
      
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software   
      
   Since you and Carlos are the ones who know more than I do about this...   
     "LocalSend is fundamentally free and open-source software (FOSS).   
      This means its source code is publicly available, allowing anyone   
      to inspect, modify, and distribute it. This core principle   
      remains regardless of how it's distributed."   
      
   I aim for software that is akin to free beer, where I don't generally   
   modify that beer and then redistribute it, but, Apple seems to be doing   
   that in a way that is sanctioned by the provider of that free beer.   
       
      
   That is, if we go to the web page for LocalSend, it has a privacy policy.   
       
      
   Then, that LocalSend site has a link to an iOS section.   
       
      
   Which then takes us to the suggested iOS IPA on the Apple App Store.   
       
      
   When you download that IPA, you can only do so with a valid Apple ID.   
      
   And then Apple unilaterally inserts not only a lock to that Apple ID,   
   but Apple also invasively tracks your every use of that software,   
   outside of the original privacy policy of the LocalSend web page.   
      
   Given those facts, now what would you call this software knowing that?   
      
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