Well, I'm more libertarian than conservative in some ways. You could call me a Radically Strict Constructionist. :-). I think I've been a Freeper longer than I've been a /.er though. There's a lot more of us RSC's out there than you might think.
As a long time IT consumer I'm encouraged by the progress made in the OS community over the past ten years.
Like many I started with MS. Unlike many I went from DOS to NT4 as a consumer. Today I still value the utility of Redmond's products but only in a safe environment ... away from the internet. I venture onto WANs protected by the relative obscurity of the children of UNIX. Opera or Mozilla ported to Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or OX10 presents a diminishing return, not worth chasing, for most malware authors.
My youngest son, a web administrator in the UC system, cringes because I've recently taken to recommending Linspire 5.0 plus Firefox as an easy first step toward safer surfing for MS users tired of the Tuesday morning panic from Redmond. He calls me a sell out because Robertson's business plan is a copy of Gate's scheme.