This is a straw man. I nowhere suggest that open source would not have distribution. GitHub isn't just 'distribution' it has required a huge amount of investm

This is a straw man. I nowhere suggest that open source would not have distribution. GitHub isn't just 'distribution' it has required a huge amount of investment and focus by individuals who need to make money to feed their families and prosper. The fact that it is GitHub that we're talking about, and the fictional repos that you imagine would spring up proves the point - in the real world, open source is subsidized by closed source.