[pp.int.general] Big Brother in NL?

[Richard Stallman]

    > Other systems let you pay and get a code which you use as a ticket.
    > That identifies who pays -- if she pays by credit card -- but does not
    > identify the traveller.  It is a little less bad than the German
    > system.
    Perhaps I did not make myself clear. This *is* basically the German system


The German system (we are told) requires the passenger to show the
credit card which paid for the ticket.  Do those other systems have
the same requirement?  If so, then you are right, they are equivalent.