@mtknn@cybre.space
ummm... are you talking about some tiny hobby projects?? Most actually successful FOSS projects have paid developers working on them, and these days there are even examples of them being paid by a community of informed users. You might need uncompensated labour to get it started today, but my whole point was that it doesn't have to be that way, and it's only that way because of proprietary software norm.
You claimed paid support never worked out, but you refuse address why it didn't work out. The answer is proprietary software.
You whole argument about gift economy hinges on software development being a production. It's not. Software development is R&D, or maintenance. It's a service. That's what most developers do and that's what most of them are paid for today. No body needs to do any work or expend any resource for you to get the copy of the so called "product". This is a fact and the only reason your so called "market economy of proprietary software"(which is a complete misnomer here) works, is because of absolutely artificial and violations of human rights, such as DRM.
Finally the whole point of GPL is that it can not be exploited like the permissive licenses. If you don't even understand that, than I guess you are not trying to understand, and just want to "win" the argument.
