It's not spyware, software has just gotten so bloated/bad and project management so clueless that we really need to broadcast everything you do and everything that goes wrong back to the mothership
They wouldn't be celebrating your cluelessness, they are talking about a "revolution", aka a revolution in the publics cluelessness about software ownership.
Why does ANY piece of software need a remote computer in order to function?
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