I kind of agree in a tragedy of the commons kind of way, but you take it entirely too far. FOSS projects that tend to be volunteer led, are that way because th

I kind of agree in a tragedy of the commons kind of way, but you take it entirely too far. FOSS projects that tend to be volunteer led, are that way because the developer is scratching their own itch. Maybe I could make money with one of hobbies, but its a risk, and I don't want to spoil something I enjoy so I just develop X in my spare time. I enjoy it, it's something I wouldn't normally get to do and yes as a bonus I can put it on a CV. Expectations beyond that are unreasonable? You don't have any right to make money from that, any more than a commercial company has a right to make a profit. And say everyone did what you suggest, its not immediately clear the world would be a better place anyway, maybe google and Facebook only exist because of the existence of Open source....