Erica Eshoo wrote:


> You are either joking, or unrealistic, or you really are a fastidious
> personality who painstakingly reads everyt word of the documentation BEFORE
> buying the software. I'm not.


Well, you're free to not do so. But then accept that the consequences are
*your* problem, not the problem of the software vendor.

> Even so, I don't recall ever seeing in the "documentation" that the

> software must phone home and that there is nothing we can do about it.

The communication behaviour of the Adobe License Manager service is
documented in there.

> Even if the "documentation" did say that, Adobe would never answer the
> question posed here which would block their monitoring of my useage of
> their software for their marketing purposes. So, this question would
> *still* need to be asked.


The real reason is much less conspirative: If you'd actually block it, the
software would simply cease to function.

> Since you obviously do read the documentation, unlike almost every single
> person I've ever met, before you buy the software - can you point me to the
> location that discusses this "feature" in the documentation?


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