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Well, i'm sorry if there were any good points in this article they were lost in this guy coming off as a tinfoil hat nut job.

In what he said he pretty much voided his own argument. If you agreed to the license when you install it thats that. You know what you have got yourself into. Therefore this is no bitching later on. You don't have to use computers. It's pretty crazy to expect companies to make something then let you go nuts doing whatever you want. If you don't agree with it, oh well.

I agree that things should use open standards. That is what matters. And I also think it's fine if you have to pay to see the spec. As long as the company that created the format is open about if you want to see it you can, you just have to pay. If they are selective about who gets to pay to see it then thats not very great. To see the source of the app frankly doesn't matter. But if your files are in a open format that others can use then everything is ok.

Next people seam to be going after office and such saying things like "if i recive a .doc i can't read it, i use linux" this is not MS's problem, you decided to use linux. No company should be required to support your doings if thats not what they were going for. Take things up with the person who sent you a .doc file. Stop blaming software firms for such issues. Blame people who use such formats. It's fine your you to hold certain values and ideals when it comes to things, but don't expect others to care or work around what you want.

People have to accept that software doesn't follow our normal rules or property. With software to make a copy or dubplicate something is so incredibly easy. Which phyiscal items this is not the case. The reason companies have such agreements on their products is they have to. If there was a way to make software un-copyiable or shareable, (basicly give it all the attributes of a physical item) they wouldn't needs such things. But thats not the case.

I think he definitly took some ideas and stretched them way past reality. I don't think MS would ever some how manage to be alowed to force destroy every version of word on every computer in the world and every .doc file every made. Or what ever he was trying to get at. At some point you have to apply reality to things, not hypothetical what ifs that odd very close to zero.