Who will control your computers?

There is a broad disparity between the views of software manufacturers and their customers with regard to who is ultimately in control of the software running on the customer machine. Businesses (and consumers) like to think that they own the machines they have paid good money for, and that they are ultimately in control of what runs on the processors which they are paying to feed with electricity day in and day out. Software manufacturers view their creations as perpetually their own, regardle