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Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 4 days ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Your computer, their software.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That you should have the option to run locally without calling back to home base without a special pass from MS.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

You do! It's called Linux.