>There are far, far more users in the world than there are developers. The discrepancy would be even higher if you hinder the ability for developers to earn mo

>There are far, far more users in the world than there are developers. The discrepancy would be even higher if you hinder the ability for developers to earn money through the GPL. Money has to come from somewhere, usually that is non-free software or ads. I wonder how much free or open source software is truly independent of non-free software. I would argue almost none. Many OSS developers work at a company producing non-free software, enabling them to create free software in their free time. The big foundations are supported by the big software companies. Most companies producing free software do so for a market of non-free software developers. If you decrease the freedom of developers you also decrease the ability for users to do anything, because there would be much less software. Software would be a small elite circle. The world is a complex place, fundamentalism very rarely accounts for that.