Please see the link that I provided; it's not that people can't _learn_ with proprietary software; that's obviously not the case at all. I learned to program o

Please see the link that I provided; it's not that people can't _learn_ with proprietary software; that's obviously not the case at all. I learned to program on a proprietary operating system with a proprietary language---Visual Basic---when I was ten years old. And I was taught that sharing was bad. I distributed some code to others, but when I wrote some actually useful software, it was proprietary, and nobody saw the source code. I didn't know about free software until after I started using GNU/Linux; I noticed that a game's "binary" (Frozen Bubble) was the source code---a python script. It amazed me, and I didn't entirely understand why. But I loved that I could hack it and make changes to it. I've lived on both ends.