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> Clearly, talking to some software over the network is 'using' it?

In some sense, yes. But I wouldn't say my mom uses Linux when she uses her Ipad to visit a website hosted on a Linux server.




Possibly not, however the passive "Linux is being used" would still be a valid observation.

In this case, the software (or a component of the software's ecosystem) was "in use" over the network.


Maybe. But in some sense, if you use a classic X application, it's all done over the network, too.




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