I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.