I must say Richard lost my respect due to his extreme black&white opinions. What I don't get is his irrational fear of proprietary software. For example, I work for a very large (proprietary) software product for healthcare industry. The amount of work is huge, due to technical challenges as well as FDA regulations we must comply with. So what, are we evil now since the software is not open source are our company charges for it?

I am a fan of open source software, but his fighting against other alternatives is at least strange and not good for our industry, IMHO.