Nope, open source does not mean free. It is an opposition to Proprietary software where everything is locked up and "kept secret" and therein lies the problem. Windows must constantly "improve" and "upgrade" their software to keep people out. Such was the case with their NTFS file system, the new programs for Office and Excel with the docx and xlsx extensions. These are merely efforts to prevent open source software from being able to compete with them and are often see more released before they have gotten out of beta.

Linux Rocks, rocks break windows ... coincidence?

In the open source community ... as I have seen here, there are many people who have already been where I am. We work together to make things better and improve them. Unfortunately, since my strengths are not in programming, I have to research what other people are doing and follow their steps. When I can contribute something, I do but mostly, when it comes to scripts, I am pretty worthless.

As for making a living from their work, again, it seems like this product is actually very solid and while there may be some issues, that need to be addressed, it seems the community has done very well. It is hard to imagine that something this good would not gain some serious recognition. Even so, it would also be nice to be able to customize the links a little bit as I have done with the BoonEx link at the bottom of the page. In that case, I simply included my logo and "An Open Source BoonEx Community" and while I realize I am running Dolphin, not BoonEx, the BoonEx name was on the original link. Should such an "indiscretion" make me a bad person for making it look like something more relevant to my site and thus, my readers so that they are more likely to click on it and learn more about the BoonEx community?