I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.