Soon in the US it will be illegal to use your computer with non-proprietary software or in ways that the <br>manufacturer did not intent. As it is if you updated <br>your MS Media Player, you have now given MS the right <br>to remove anything off of your machine they feel might <br>interfere with their intellectual property rights. <br> <br>The rest of the world is slowly moving towards the <br>security and lower cost of ownership of open source.