I've found the Monestastery remarkably free of Zealotry. There are Monks here who are actively part of the effort to improve the Win32 port of perl. Personally, I use proprietary stuff because I have to, and will junk them at the first chance I get. I just saved my company about $2000 in the last week by suggesting the use of Open Source alternatives that do the job just fine.

If you're mentioning proprietary systems in your posts and getting modded down, I don't think its because you're mentioning proprietary systems. More likely it's because you have the English skills of an American 3rd-grader (and no, I don't care if I'm downvoted for saying so in such a tone).