@rhamph @EFreethought For me it was 2005. I was a self-taught occasional programmer and had been running Linux (and occasionally BSD) for a decade by then. And then I found myself as a computer science major in a program that was all Windows focused and E-Commerce focused, and I decided that the computer revolution was over - reduced to appliances and web stores, there was just nothing interesting or new or worthwhile to be created there. I "dropped out" a couple years in.

Twenty-one years later, I'm a part time dishwasher commuting by bicycle and generally have no regrets.

Oh, and I've not purchased or used *any* commercial non-open-source software of any kind since I dropped out... (I had to pay for a Linux copy of Maple for a class once).