If your software is valuable to me, and I use it without paying for it, then it is unpaid labor. It is irrelevant why you made the software, and irrelevant what

If your software is valuable to me, and I use it without paying for it, then it is unpaid labor. It is irrelevant why you made the software, and irrelevant what the transaction cost is. > My argument is that norm should be inverted That norm is being set by the authors, and can be inverted by the authors, right? If devs want to be paid, they can and do ask to be paid, right?