[jayliew]

Ideological and rational are not in opposition all the time, but they're not congruent all the time either.

I don't fully agree that all non-foss are bad, or that all foss are good. You can find exceptions to the rule either way.

I think the helpful perspective is to take a step back and look at the whole system from a macro perspective. Based on traction, which do you think is "better". I think it really depends on the use-case.

There's a lot of shitty foss software out there, that is just plain unusable because developers like geeking out over code but UX + UI polish are non-technical problems and thus ignored.