Depends on how you define freedom (i have a real 12 bottle headache here so i dont mean to be moody or anything)
One could argue that you are bound in to a system of corporate dependency, others could argue this is normal and everyone should get over it. Personally i want choice (I CHOOSE to use Ubuntu and Windows) and while alternatives keep chipping away at market dominance then all the better for all.
The reason i think like this is fairly easy; why should one body (and in this case a company) decide how the whole world should do its computing?. What if they go out of business tomorrow or there's another war? What if they sudenly decided to dissalow all non-corporate development because of viruses, piracy or terrorism?
Like drug addiction dependency always sucks.
One could argue that you are bound in to a system of corporate dependency, others could argue this is normal and everyone should get over it. Personally i want choice (I CHOOSE to use Ubuntu and Windows) and while alternatives keep chipping away at market dominance then all the better for all.
The reason i think like this is fairly easy; why should one body (and in this case a company) decide how the whole world should do its computing?. What if they go out of business tomorrow or there's another war? What if they sudenly decided to dissalow all non-corporate development because of viruses, piracy or terrorism?
Like drug addiction dependency always sucks.