>My question is, how have you kept yourselves on the right track this entire
time, and is there any way that I can easily convince my friends to atleast
try to not use Micro$oft Windows and proprietary software?
Whenever I had strange urges in the past I thought about the great beauty of
the free software movement, what it was all about, its lofty goals. The
massive scale of people's donation of time and skill towards the common good.
It always helped me shun any silly ideas. Besides that it only gets easier
with time.
I doubt there's an easy way to persuade people. Everybody will have their own
path. And some will never see the light. You can only lead the horse to the
water but you cannot make it drink. And people only really care about things
they have internal motivation for anyways. I always point people to the GNU
philosophy pages. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
