How I think about open source has changed

When I first encountered a Linux 1 , I was surprised how an operating system, let alone the software coming along, could be free of charge 2 . It was wild and exciting! Until then I had seen software only being sold in shops (Windows, file managers, anti virus software, in big cardboard boxes with flashy pictures and a floppy disk or CD tumbling about inside) or handed around surreptitiously on…