"Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the software owner and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few

"Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the software owner and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few." Does anyone else think that things have gotten worse since bug #1, not better? I feel more trapped and locked in by today's platforms than I ever did in an MS world. E.g. app store, google play, amazon whatever, cloud-hosted applications that all charge monthly fees, hosts of applications changing their terms and locking you out of your data or randomly shutting down their services entirely... r.i.p. google notebook, reader, knoll, etc. r.i.p. sims, jet-set-secrets