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Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 21 hours ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Your computer, their software.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours 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 owns the copyright to it). If someone else controls yours computer then that erodes your ownership of the computer.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 20 hours 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 6 points 19 hours ago

You do! It's called Linux.