Can't say I agree with you Ghodmode, and Trouble is right when he mentions the article doesn't even end. Of course, I think you have a right to say what you have to say, but please don't use the site as an outlet to plug your own blog in the future. We would love to see more blog entries from you if they contain substantive information and ideas without links to your other 3rd-party blog. Starting a blog on this site is for your own original use and also not for support Q&A like the support forums.
I think there is a fair argument that we are all "addicts" to commercialism in one form or another, but how the concept of intellectual property has developed and evolved over the years has always been a difficult time. Proponents of commercial software will argue that it creates jobs for programmers and a host of talented people in an industry that, historically speaking, is in its infancy whereas open source projects are often times commercialized anyway -- a board of directors throws a Linux distro together to sell in stores and makes a 100% profit on an operating system thousands of people around the world contributed to for free.