> Linux dropped the cost of using UNIX down to zero. "Linux is only free if your time has no value." I've been using it personally and professionally for over

> Linux dropped the cost of using UNIX down to zero. "Linux is only free if your time has no value." I've been using it personally and professionally for over 20 years now. Unless you're specifically using the term "cost" to mean solely money, it is in no conceivable way without cost. There is, for example, a significant cognitive burden involved in keeping up with the ceaseless parade of travesties committed by people trying to "make things better" in Linux, who instead just compromise the system for those of us who disagree with their notions of betterness. I'm reminded entirely too much by some corners of the Linux community of Apple's "We know what users want, and give it to them good and hard" attitude.