Open Source and Free Software:Does it really matters?

One can get Ubuntu-Linux CD's Delivered for Free to their Home(Desired Place),so would u rather Buy a Windows Vista Version worth Hundreds of USD?
You can find any software with Open Source,let it be Operating System or Web Browser,Media Player or Programming Language.Almost every softaware need can be sought and bought for Free,providing User with the Software and it's Source code too,isn't that luring.Good for the Users and even Jackpot fot the Novice Programmers on the verge of being Pro.
I can see many of my Friends moving Towards Linux these days,it's becoming Trendy.But on the other horizon i can anticipate the Future of Software Community.One doesnt need to buy any software anymore,just get connected via. Internet to the Internation GNU community and get your programme downloaded or delivered by your doorsteps.
Around My circles of friends,nobody pays a buck for the software,they either use the Open source one or the Pirated one.May be cos the users of my nation(nepal) aint so well off to pay the costly softwares in USD.
GNU is making a huge wave around the world,its something like Socialism.Everything for Free.If one gets the programme he must get the source code too,thats his right.Even the programme shouldn't be out for Commercial,it should be meant for serving Human e-Civilization .Just look at contribution of Wikipedia,and the popularity it has gained.When it's free and usefull everyone loves to use it.
"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer."
Richard Matthew Stallman can be next Karl Marx,who sought the future of e-Civilization. :-)

I. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
II. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1)Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
III. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
IV. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
So does Free Software and Open source matters?What do you think?
--Bishwa Hang Rai