Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--0811e8-But spyware is not as bad as i/en

But spyware is not as bad as it gets. There are non-free software packages that are deliberately designed to refuse to work. This is called DRM, Digital Restrictions Management, where the program says, "I won't let you look at that file; I won't let you copy this; I won't let you edit this." Well, who the hell is this program to stop you? And sometimes non-free programs will reconfigure your machine, for instance make it display advertisements, figuring that you won't know it's going to happen and you won't know how to undo it afterward.