Okay, so I’m using Mozilla as my primary browser. Big deal. I still see some ads. My computer is still plugged into the wall, and the bill will come due at the end of the month from both the power company and the ISP, which means open source won’t starve out the techs and pole climbers and secretaries and postal workers, nor the bankers or grocers or Wal-Mart employees or gas station owners or broadcasters or butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who feed off of them, etc.
I’m using open source products on an HP machine via a Microsoft OS. I’m writing this offline at the moment on an MS word processor. Seems a fair balance to me.
Certainly some of the Mozilla coders have a deep hatred, or distrust, towards MS, and it’s why they do what they do. But there are others who do it for the hobby, for the fun of working on a large project. Where is creativity stifled?
I think of a woman I used to be with, who was very good at arts and crafts, how she made things and gave them to her friends for the love of doing it, and she paid good money to the craft stores in the process.
Communism, my rusty behind…. 