[I have managed to pull 2 posts from Brendan (Ok, their more like comments, but expanded comments)].
Brendan, blogged about the fact that he is quickly
becoming an Open Source Hippie. For the second time today, I have to say that I agree with him.
I have mentioned in the past that I'm a big fan of SharpZip. I also use a couple of other open source libraries (including PostgreSQL). I'm still not a fan of the GPL, and am not planning on installing a Linux or any other open source OS under anything other than an emulator (like Bochs or QEMU) or a virtualization (??) layer like VMWare or VirtualPC.
What my friend Dave said to me a few months ago seems to ring true stable open source libraries = free code = the easy life for me
[note to self... quit using Firefox to edit posts... the CS editor leaves a lot to be desired... I had to re-enter this post... sorry]