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by v3ss0n 389 days ago
May be they have put prompts with instructions to blackmail users when they are going to be replaced by opensource offline alternatives
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Having AI Clippy beg for its life like HAL 9000 as the LibreOffice installer downloads would certainly be a step up from the ":( sorry to see you go, please come back" dialogs that some software and subscriptions use.