How many of you are making a significant amount of money as freelance programmers? I am talking specifically about shareware & commercial program authors. You don't need to reply with any private details, just a yay or nay. The reason I am asking this is twofold -

1) I just finished a debate on another part of the net with an individual who strongly believes that the whole software industry is and should be open-source, and that all programmers should just give everything away for free. This person also says that shareware authors are not and have never made a significant amount of money.

2) My wife is a little pi**ed because I sold a rather sucessful automotive repair business to persue my dream of programming before I really do get too old(no offense to anyone intended - I'm almost 40).
Anyway, yes/no answers and opinions on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all.

- Radar