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That's the reason I do not believe in God (the supreme being?) [thus, no hopes for the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything]:
in a perfect world, we STILL DO have spammers.
A software company chief research officer reassures the AC, that "if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer [nowadays] and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer.", "Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack".
"by consequence of having access to the code any privacy concerns can easily be detected / removed by end users if desired, but I still don't see the connection between free software and assumed privacy."
Let this be replied by another question:
In the world of proprietary SF, where software not only doesn't do what a user needs, but even does what user doesn't want, and free software, which does only what it is supposed to to, how can You call a choice to be controlled by a manufacturer of locked up, bulky and noneffective software a FREEDOM?!