[Moose4]

Thing is, open-source software doesn't have to be free as in costing $0.00. It's perfectly legit to charge for it. But when you buy it, you get the source code along with it if you want, and can make any modifications you want--just remember that those modifications have to go back into the public domain.

And a lot of open-source software is quite good. I use OpenOffice 1.1 at home, which is a freely downloadable clone of Microsoft Office. Is it as good as MS Office? No, not quite, but it's close enough for what I need. And, I don't have to pay several hundred dollars for it or bootleg a copy.

I agree that some of the open-source people get weird sometimes (Stallman in particular gets waaaaay out there on occasion). But as a development methodology, it's got its place beside commercial software.

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