Found this on a discussion about the Matrix:Reloaded on imdb -
"I wont be seeing this film or the other one after it cause a Anti-American type like Laurence Fishburne is in it and I am sick of him and the other rabid Hollywood Leftists telling america what to do."

Can anyone say Kneejerk reaction?

I can't even be bothered to argue with this moron.

At the moment they are attempting to discredit open source software, which I make use of extensively. I run linux pretty much 24/7 on my main computer. In fact the only time I ever reboot into windows is to run applications that I can't run otherwise, and that's only after having a good go at getting them to run in wine first.

What REALLY infuriates me is that Microsoft thinks they have the right to kill a software movement that provides cheap, reliable, secure software to anyone and everyone that wants to use it. What the hell? This is a bit like Wal-Mart shutting down a voluntary organisation "Because it conflicts with their business plan". I cannot BELEIVE that the US department of justice ruled this as acceptable behaviour. RMS and co are trying to do some good for the community, and Microsoft is only interested in getting richer through peddling inferior products.

Anyways, given against open source were initially things like "it's un-american" or "it's a form of communism".

Un-American? That would make the definition of American "severely limits freedom". Seems a bit odd to me, especially as America is supposed to be the "Free world".

People (in the US anyway) take a bad reaction to the word "communism". Yes, it's never worked in practice (The Russian regime apparantly wasn't "true" communism however) but that's not to say it doesn't have a few desirable characteristics. However, during the cold war there was so much anti-communist propaganda on the go that anything associated with it is instantly branded evil.

Bah.