> people should be allowed to profit from their own work By "people", do you mean "developers", or "capital"? As a software developer I am well-compensated co

> people should be allowed to profit from their own work By "people", do you mean "developers", or "capital"? As a software developer I am well-compensated compared to people in many other professions, but unless I play the startup lottery I'm as isolated from the investor class as the rest of the proles. Publishing work as open source allows me to get a better ROI than I get working on proprietary code.