Your argument would make sense if it weren't pay what you like, with the option to pay zero, and the default option being less than the price of a sandwich. Yo

Your argument would make sense if it weren't pay what you like, with the option to pay zero, and the default option being less than the price of a sandwich. You mention that investors have lots of money and are therefore able to take on risks. I suspect that nearly everyone who would consider downloading this operating system has a lot of money relative to the $5 suggested donation, and certainly relative to the $1 you could choose instead. And if you truly don't have that, then you can do $0 instead. You can make the risk to yourself arbitrarily low, selecting whatever you think fits your profile of cost vs potential reward. That is their rational model.