My two cents.... I think that using the best available tool when you need them isn't wrong. But I think that we should always discriminate against proprietary software and use it when one really needs it i.e your a professional graphic artist and you need Photoshop or there is no open source equivalent choice available. The important thing is to let know companies that users demand free software and will always prefer free software. For example I may use the NVIDEA proprietary drivers now, but the next time a buy a video card I will go with ATI because they plan to start offering free drivers. This way we can be both "pragmatic" and "idealistic" at the same time.
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My two cents.... I think that using the best available tool when you need them isn't wrong. But I think that we should always discriminate against proprietary software and use it when one really needs it i.e your a professional graphic artist and you need Photoshop or there is no open source equivalent choice available. The important thing is to let know companies that users demand free software and will always prefer free software. For example I may use the NVIDEA proprietary drivers now, but the next time a buy a video card I will go with ATI because they plan to start offering free drivers. This way we can be both "pragmatic" and "idealistic" at the same time.