I think an employer wanting to make decisions about how employees can interact with internal software isn't a good stand-in for OS vendors dictating terms to th

I think an employer wanting to make decisions about how employees can interact with internal software isn't a good stand-in for OS vendors dictating terms to third parties. But even given that example, we can learn from how Windows protects it's critical system files. They're hidden unless the user goes out of their way looking for them. But if you think you know what you're doing, MS lets you take control, for good or ill. Even assuming OS vendors are truly benelolent, I'm not sure that makes it okay for them to make themselves the sole arbiters of how we use our computers.