I'm doing a text about the potential damages of proprietary software and have mentioned the "celebrity cases" of Windows installing "Windows Genuine Advantage" with the automatic updates, Apple reserving the right to zap any and all iPhone Apps it doesn't like and the Amazon Kindle censorship case - trying to argue, obviously, that if all software was shipped as free software as a matter of course, that kind of behaviour would not be as big a problem as users and organizations would be able to change it.
Does anyone know of more striking cases, possibly a list, of people who have been badly bitten by proprietary software. (There's the standards issue, of course, but that deserves to be treated apart).
br Carsten Agger Denmark