Isn't that an argument for it being free and open? Whether contributors get paid is orthogonal to freedom and openness. It's hard to imagine what would have ha

Isn't that an argument for it being free and open? Whether contributors get paid is orthogonal to freedom and openness. It's hard to imagine what would have happened if there was no GNU Linux, Apache, SQLite... [insert gigantic list of open source technology that almost everyone in our field relies on].