Microsoft has extended the HTML standard to include characters that don't display properly unless you use only their web browser. It is an annoyance, I can still read the pages. These are all small examples. They are examples that even Microsoft proponents will likely be familiar with. They are real examples.
Similar ones happen daily around the globe thanks to the disease proprietary .
A couple of weeks ago I was at a party and talked at length with an ultra-conservative who was spouting about how the government should leave Microsoft alone. You see, I'm not for removing Microsoft as a choice. I'm not for total world domination. It would be horrible for there to be only one choice, even if that one choice was Linux. I simply want the freedom to choose the products that I feel best do the job, and Linux is my choice.