As a person who has acquired several "free" pianos, I personally love this analogy and in no way view it as a criticism. Free pianos _are_ free - when I was br

As a person who has acquired several "free" pianos, I personally love this analogy and in no way view it as a criticism. Free pianos _are_ free - when I was broke and 22, it was the only way to get a piano. I had lots of other broke 22 year old friends with nothing to do, we hauled it up the steps and then I was playing piano! If I were rich and busy, I wouldn't have bothered, but I wasn't. I think this is an important counterpoint to the "FOSS solves all problems and is perfect" or "commercial software is always bad" attitude that some folk present. I'm so thankful that any developer opens up their code, even when it's not perfect. I've often learned how to do something, borrowed a function, or learned what the right configuration option is from FOSS projects that I didn't even attempt to use wholesale.