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About a year ago, some developers&hellip; some researchers found out that, they figured out that, Windows XP when it asked for an upgrade, also reports to Microsoft, what's installed on your disk. And it does this secretly, it sends the list of files encrypted, so that it was impossible for people to tell easily that this was going on. They had to work hard [FIXME: 12:10] ??? to determine what information Windows was sending back to Microsoft. But, Windows is not the only software package, nonfree software package that [FIXME: 12:30 spies] on you. Windows media player also spies on you. Every time you access something, it sends a report to Microsoft, saying what you are looking at. And Real Player also spies on you. So Microsoft is not the only nonfree software developer guilty of this kind of special mistreatment of the users. The Tivo spies on you. Some people enthusiastic on Tivo, because it is based on GNU and Linux to some extent.