Can any sane person please explain how someone being sued for wrongfully profiting and wrongfully using DirectX technology outside the designated Windows platform makes DirectX not completely free for PC gamers and developers?

@ronvalencia: Omg you are crazy. You thought I was saying PC gaming is locked down like Nintendo hardware? What a bunch of loons with no comprehension of the written English language.

@ronvalencia: wtf I never even mentioned anything Nintendo-related. I commented on your nonsense IP damages lawsuit having anything to do with DirectX not being free. Does anyone here not have a reading disability???

@ronvalencia: it's free for everyone involved in PC gaming. Get off that tangent about nonsense Microsoft vs Google legal fights. It doesn't look good on you. Microsoft pursued legal action against Google, claiming all Android technology was theirs and wrongfully stolen, all after their Windows Phone couldn't compete with existing platforms.

@ronvalencia: yes it is free for everyone. What you are taking about are patents which are in place to protect intellectual properties. Going on an unrelated tangent when no one is talking about lawsuits and legal battles.

@FireEmblem_Man: omg "MS requires an MS account for the Windows 10 store but you can completely refuse to use it" is an example of consumer freedom, not Microsoft control. DirectX is completely free for everyone and there are no restrictions or requirements for who wants to use it. So no Microsoft control there. OpenGL works just fine on Windows because Microsoft does not control what API you develop for on Windows. The majority of PC developers freely choose to developer for Windows because that's where gamers freely choose to game, not because Microsoft had some mandate or dictation. Since you haven't lookes up the definition all of this time, "control" is the opposite of "free." Is it really that hard????????

@FireEmblem_Man: I've never seen someone duck and dodge a simple question as much as you. You are just as bad as them. Claiming Microsoft controls what content you can use on Windows and how but can't produce a logical answer that remotely shows how Microsoft nazi dictates a platform everyone knows is completely open. Have fun with your tin foil hat.

@FireEmblem_Man: I have a problem with you not explain a lick of how Microsoft controls how you use Windows. So are you going to find that definition yet? You can't blame anyone but yourself if you don't have the same basic vocabulary as the rest of the English-speaking world.

@FireEmblem_Man: wow wtf are you really that incapable of reading. Can you please go to the deepest reaches of internet and find the English definition of "full control." I know this is a very difficult task, but I am trusting you with this oh so important mission.

@FireEmblem_Man: You don't know my problem, but I know yours. You can't read and thus missed all of the people claiming that Microsoft can lock down Windows in a hostile takeover any time they want or that Microsoft already has full control over how you use Windows.