Well, Cactus asked me to give my thoughts about the debate on "dead or dormant" free software. As you can see, I spent the last half year on closed projects giving nothing to the common only benefiting from freely available softwares. Not repeting his views my impression was that as someone gets more experienced with -any- software, [s]he needs less help, therefore spends less time on mailing lists/irc/etc, gives less help to newbies. And writes less open software :/ .