Ok, Mr.Crazy..j/k
First of all M$ is not taking over anything. 2nd of all no one is taking away your freedom. I am not arguing that bill gates (he doesnt deserve his name to be capitalized) is innocent nor am I saying he is not innocent. What I am saying is that thankz to this smart, brilliant, selfish and money hungry guy, we are where we are. Admit it, M$ had a big impact on the pc world as we see it today. Do you have any idea how big the Open Source community is? Linux/BSD is the best examples, and there are many more, open source is not only about Operating Systems it is also about computer languages and etc. M$ does not own C++ hell they didnt even invent it. Their VC++ is just another compiler, and there are dozens of compilers to choose from. You dont have to use M$ OS, or products, there are many other apps u can use that r free and jsut as good. Indirectly AMD relies on M$, whether u accept/admit it or not but there are a lot of n00bs out there who use M$ products and refuse to switch, and do you know why? because they dont really care about computers all that much. A computer is a tool that is there to facilitate your job, examples are: Accountants, Sales people, Marketing, Graphic Artists and many others. Do most of them care about how it works? NO, just as long as it works. If a computer does what they want it to do, then they are happy, they dont care how it does it, as long as it gets the job done. [shadow]SIMPLE AND TO THE POINT[/shadow] . Remember you always have a choice when it comes to the world of computers. I dont care who says what but bill gates to me is a just a smart ass business man. And I give him props to certain extent thankz to him we are more evolved.
Note: How many people do you know that are willing to sit at work and learn Unix?

To add to that, I am not saying we can't live without M$ at this point, because now we can easily live without M$'s buggy software. But unfortuantly many companys rely to much on M$. M$ does have a big impact on computer world and in a way thats very bad
NEVERTHELESS not bill gates nor his company will be able to put down or destroy the [gloworange]OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY. [/gloworange] BSD will own M$ any day, any time, AND any where. BRING IT ON