Posted Nov 23, 2012 0:58 UTC (Fri) by Rudd-O (subscriber, #61155)
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Microsoft only has the power it has over you -- the power to deny your use of your stuff -- because of Intellectual Poverty.
Intellectual Poverty -- the belief that it is okay for a monopolist to punish you for your use of your property in ways he disapproves -- is obviously immoral.
If this topic interests you, Stephan Kinsella has written Against Intellectual Property, a treatise that covers this topic at length.