The gift of it's your problem now
This was a long, thoughtful read. I really enjoyed it and mostly see things as the author does.<p>> So it is with free software. You literally cannot pay for it. If you do, it becomes something else.<p>This is really the crux. Everyone is mad there’s no money in writing free/os software, but if there was money it wouldn’t be free/os software. It would just be like what we do at our day jobs.<p>You can write the code someone else wants and get paid for it (aka a day job). You also have the option to write the code YOU want to write, but in this case you’ll need to figure out a plan for making money on your own.