Yeah, selling free software doesn't work out in the practical world. There are astonishingly few business (RedHat) making money selling free software, and we do

Yeah, selling free software doesn't work out in the practical world. There are astonishingly few business (RedHat) making money selling free software, and we don't really want authors using that business model. (Want to know how Dumbledore died? Buy an expensive subscription and get access to Harry Potter technicians). The premise that because a handful of business are able to survive on a different business model, authors should be forced to do the same, is abusurd. > I'm asking for evidence that more copyright brings more wages to developers and less copyright means less wages. Very simple. Look at the real world and the business models of top 10000 software companies. There would be <10 companies selling free software. And authors can't go the subscription route. >many publishers make money selling public domain books. Nobody here is saying IA couldn't provide "public domain" books. The point is they shouldn't be giving out the labour of authors for free, just like you won't like if people took out your labour for free.