Sentience in a seed-pod

Ok, I think I understand myself pretty well. I know what I'm about most of the time. But sometimes I throw myself a curve ball (this is a baseball analogy for any American readers. Love me!). Take this open source thing. Now, I'm not a political man. I don't watch the news. I don't care about a long list of issues other people care about. I should give a flying flatbread about an open source debate. But I do. I get mad at these open source people always pushing their Linux and their GPL. And I don't know why. I don't know the issues or the arguments for or against. I just don't know, people!

In the absence of knowledge of any kind, I'm going to make a few unfounded pragmatic judgments, which may or may not be accurate, but upon which I nonetheless will base an entire hate campaign:

• It's hypocritical to work for a software company and earn a salary but support open source.
• If companies don't pay oodles of cash for software licenses they'll just use the cash to buy themselves caviar and limos instead of pay your salary.
• If you sold your software instead of giving it away, you'd have enough money to pay for software from Microsoft.
• Stop trying to make out like open source software is better. Microsoft products rock, and are often out before open source replacements.
• Microsoft wants to make their products better because they'll earn more money that way.
• Open source people only want to make a product they'd like to use.
• Open source people start out because they are too cheap to pay for their operating system in the first place.
• Open source evangelists pick their noses in public.
• Bill Gates singlehandedly invented an industry - what have you done today?

Note: None of these are the reasons why I'm pissed off about it. I'm just mad. Irrationally, completely mad!