I am really interested in the replies here... I've never really done anything with open source... I started my programming career as someone who couldn't afford

I am really interested in the replies here... I've never really done anything with open source... I started my programming career as someone who couldn't afford to pay someone for things I wanted (Big things done open source now, that weren't available back in 1999-2000 when I started) and ended up starting to sell my code to others. And because of that I never really had the whole open source mindset... Everything I did was for me to make money, didn't want to give the cow away for free when I was trying to sell the milk.