IE is free software.
IIS comes free with XP Pro.
All this "software is communism" crap is ludicrous.
You have to buy the operating system first. Or I should say, TO BE LEGAL you have to buy the operating system first. Still confused?
It's misguided thinking. Same as the old "What's good for GM is good for America" during the 60s and 70s. Problem is, that kind of thinking gets you into trouble. Competition is good. Look what the Mozilla Foundation has done for Microsoft: forced it to update a product that they hadn't put anything into for years. Would you rather that Microsoft went the way of GM?
Incidentally, BSD Unix was a product of ARPA/DARPA funding and DOD ideas. Hard to get more American than that.