Quote Originally Posted by MorePunkThanFunk
the free software thing does sound like a good idea but in reality you get what you pay for and most free software is never gonna be as good as its commercial counterpart.
I disagree.

We use mainly FOSS stuff here for work (I'm a software engineer).

Eclipse pisses all over M$ Visual Studio, or any other IDE I've used.

The music stuff is a bit behind, but it's only a matter of time.

Besides, the creative potential in stuff like PureData - particularly
for someone like me who knows how to code - is massive.