I have paid thousands of dollars for commercial software, but it makes me nervous to have my computer controlled by forces that are hidden to me and to practically everyone. For example, to have to agree not to try to examine the software that is on my computer -- isn't that like getting a car and having to agree not to open the hood? The reason I didn't move on to Vista was basically because I felt that the progressive commercialization of my computing life had gone far enough.

I saw in the paper that some of the girls removed from the ultra-fundamentalist Mormon community didn't know their ages or how to spell their own names. Doesn't that remind you of some computer users? I'd rather be in a community where things are more complicated, but freer.