On the other hand, I think it's kinda nice that open source exists outside of our capitalist economy. I don't think you can really argue that it isn't working -

On the other hand, I think it's kinda nice that open source exists outside of our capitalist economy. I don't think you can really argue that it isn't working - lots of people are fine with contributing to open source because they enjoy writing code that helps more than just them, just that maybe it would be nice if more of this labor was paid for. We have to be very careful trying to extract money out of working on open source, I wouldn't want to see the same kind of perversion of incentives that causes large enterprise companies to produce absolutely godawful software come to open source projects too. (See Linus' many famous rants against commercial contributors trying to push crap into Linux for examples of this).