Scratch your own itch ! Free software is in the interest of the users - not in anyone else's interest. So, if you need software and if that software isn't your

Scratch your own itch ! Free software is in the interest of the users - not in anyone else's interest. So, if you need software and if that software isn't your competitive edge, you have an incentive to cooperate with other users (as a developer or as a client of developers) and a free software license is a way to regulate that cooperation. Criticizing free software licenses for not providing a business model is missing the point entirely.