I'm Microsoft-free too (except for my mouse, but I view that as taking advantage of them) since I got rid of IE, but Microsoft is hurting a lot of people and is still causing harm to the Macintosh computing experience in general.
Hell yes, I would pay $56. I would pay $1000 (provided I had time to save up for it). I'm surprised that most of you are being so passive about this. This is the Microsoft Eradication Forums for crying out loud!