This is just one article that hightlights the concerns about proprietary software. One of the reasons I support Ron Paul is because the constitutional free market would not prop up proprietary software with a patent system that has become intelectual real estate instead of the "better mousetrap" philosophy that made us a nation of inventions.
Also watch the link in my signature, it's a speech by Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center to help understand the larger issue and why free (as in freedom) software is very american.
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The short version is that most people use programs that have no open source code available to be publically seen. The problem with closed source is that you don't know what it's doing aside from what you are told it does.
You can easily switch to linux and be protected from spyware, viruses and also have free programs like an office suite, games and financial software. All of which are guarenteed to work only for you. Check it out... www.ubuntu.com or pick your own linux www.distrowatch.org
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