It is my choice... i personally feel that running non-free software on a free operating system is weird. People should be allowed to choose what kind of sw they want installed.
And in the end, this is the way it's always going to be. Let's face it, having only free software or only proprietary software is comparable to having a completely socialist or completely capitalist system. On one side you have no incentive for inovation from profit (which, as much as I hate to admit it, is as much a driving force as need at times, quality not withstanding), while on the other you have a Pol Pot style advocacy for any means necesary to create profits (read: monopolistic practices).
In the end, standards should be open, allowing for competition in proprietary and/or open software form quality and features as opposed to the cornering of a market.
(Yes, I know this is simplistic and probably has alot of holes, but I don't quite feel like re-writing my college thesis).
