Is it really that unreasonable a question to ask? The purity inherent in insisting on using only free software is laudable, but evangelizing is only effective

Is it really that unreasonable a question to ask? The purity inherent in insisting on using only free software is laudable, but evangelizing is only effective when there's reach. (It's also much more compelling when it demonstrably makes folks' lives materially better, but reasonable people will disagree on the particulars there.)