<i>&gt; Best content is often created by people who want to create something so that it exists, not just to make a buck out of it.</i><p>While true to some extent, if we want these people to keep making more of this &quot;best content&quot;, we should also enable them to &quot;make a buck out of it&quot;. Else they will (and do) go do something else to make a buck and we&#x27;ll be worse off for it.<p><i>&gt; Open source code is not an exception, it&#x27;s the rule.</i><p>How often do people get paid for open source projects? How often do people get paid for writing custom, proprietary code? If your answers to these questions don&#x27;t make obvious the fallacy of your statement above, all I can say is you&#x27;re living in a bubble.