[mixmastamyk]

As I said, a very short-sighted attitude. Four dimensional thinking is harder but not hard. Also, you don’t seem to get the beer/freedom distinction.

Mobile has been won, “Windows Server is dead” (read on this site many times), many desktop tools are floss now, even M$ is writing them. Your small industry not withstanding.

[carlosjobim]

Short sighted is to believe that future generations can have the luxury of previous generations to live so extremely comfortably that they have ample free time and energy to make open source code (for the benefit of billion dollar companies mostly). I'd rather pay for quality apps, where I know that my money pays salaries for the developers. That is much more sustainable and far-sighted.

And I'm getting much more in return as a customer, where I can actually report a bug and get it fixed or ask for a feature and get it implemented, instead of being told to f myself or fork the code, by some angry free developer.

If normal non-developers don't have software tools that they can use to be creative, then you're just throwing all these people into the bin of being only consumers. Who benefits from that?