Rick, you miss one point: free software is about freedom, not price. Hackers insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient...
My mission today is to teach you to value these freedoms... Please, try to learn this philosophy. Free Software is a movement that one day you will rejoin ;)
Freedom is worth a sacrifice - (RMS)
christophe
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://www.gnu.org/
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
http://code.google.com/p/js2-mode/
http://groups.google.com/group/emacs-on-rails