>>I agree. I hear open source people tout having the source code and
>> being able to customize it, and then I ask them if they ever have.
>>
>>Answer is almost invariably no - never. Yes answers make me suspect
>> the integrity of the respondent (yeah - there are a very few people that
>> actually will fight with the source).
>
>That is absolutely correct. Very few people modify FLOSS projects. However, the philosophy is the important angle there.
>
>FLOSS cares about giving to people.
>Proprietary software cares about collecting money from people.
>
>It's where your heart is... in giving, or desiring.


So people don't buy hardware from vendors that use slave labor, right?