choosing them is a short-term, individualist play which signals a lack of faith in and support for the long-term goals of the FOSS ecosystem as a whole. The FOS

choosing them is a short-term, individualist play which signals a lack of faith in and support for the long-term goals of the FOSS ecosystem as a whole. The FOSS ecosystem needs your investment I will never understand this "command economy" vision of some FOSS advocates. FOSS and proprietary software can and do coexist. Considering most FOSS code is written by people whose income is dependent on revenue generated by proprietary code, the purity obsession becomes frankly ridiculous. Proprietary code needs FOSS to keep it from stagnating and becoming abusive, and FOSS needs proprietary code to put food in the stomachs of the people writing it.