This whole issue is a large pandora's box that occasionally gets opened. I started using Linux because it did give me the power to run my PC=personal computer. There are many people who never want to get under the hood and play with nix much less mess with a command line. Now Ubuntu is about as easy to put on as a pair of underpants under your kilt. Most kilt wearers know they dont belong there just as the know Nix is not for them. I keep an XP box for some scanners and other proprietary hardware just as many Nix user do. It isnt that Microsoft(Bill Gates) or Mac(Jobs) are evil. They are just trying in any way possible to corner markets and crush competition. This hasnt always been done in ethical ways but profit and money makes for less than ethical ways. We also have to look at the gaming industry and hardware that pushes faster bigger pcs than most people need. Are they evil, no just profit driven too. Then the other side is the hackers that feel they have to break everything. Some do a good job exposing flaws in an OS yet some are actually just trying to break MS and Mac. This leads to exploits useable by less than nice people or companies that hack your box. The evil I think seen in Micrsoft is the control they want over your personal computer. Mac is really the same in that issue. People see that control as invasion of their personal rights. So people do have choices, use profit driven companies, not use a computer or get under the hood occasionally and roll your own.