Sorry, but this is just not true at all. There are thousands of open (and closed) source projects, software, and services that do not fall under this silly stat

Sorry, but this is just not true at all. There are thousands of open (and closed) source projects, software, and services that do not fall under this silly statement. Does it mean that if you do pay for a product, that you still can't "be the product"? Blanket statements shouldn't be anyone's motto.