This post contains a few GIS related thoughts, offered in the spirit of sharing that's at the core of open source. A bit like QGIS itself, I hope. My goal is not to convince anyone that they should be using QGIS but rather to convince potential GIS users that QGIS is now, at 21 years old, a mature, robust, powerful product used by millions of users and thousands of major corporations and universities worldwide - as well as lots of small companies like my own.