Just to answer in the context of the subject.
I feel that in some cases, a commercial, closed-source product is fine. I
would not mind paying for a GOOD product. Some products are the result of a
sizable investment in manpower as well as financial resources. Some
companies have a mixed model where they have both an OpenSource, free
product and a commercial version of that. Trolltech's QT is one that comes
to mind. Adobe is primarily closed source, even for their freely available
products. I see nothing wrong with a company, like Adobe making their
product line available on Linux.
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Jerry Feldman