There seems to still be too many people who cling to the romantic notion that Free Software must be produced for free, as a pure labour of love. It's absolute

There seems to still be too many people who cling to the romantic notion that Free Software must be produced for free, as a pure labour of love. It's absolute nonsense - so many of the most successful free/open source software projects are those with salaried employees working on it, and this has been the case for many years. The problem today is of course finding a way to fund open source contributors whose projects aren't quite aligned with the needs of a major company.