> like saying any rent is not rent once any other rent opportunity exists Good point, thanks! FWIW, I did try selling free software, though under the MIT lice

> like saying any rent is not rent once any other rent opportunity exists Good point, thanks! FWIW, I did try selling free software, though under the MIT license. My income was a fraction of the hourly wage were I do do in-house development that was never released at all. Enough to live on, but not normal software developer wages. So I find it hard to call that "rent". Speaking of economic rent, "Frappe has the huge advantage of being the home to most of the contributors and maintainers of ERPNext" makes it sound rather close to the economic rent attributed to labor unions ("higher pay for some workers, where collective action creates a scarcity of such workers, as opposed to an ideal condition where labor competes with other factors of production on price alone" - from WP's "Economic rent"). That's pattern matching on my side, since I don't have handle on what 'rent' is supposed to mean here. Speaking of distractions, the analogy "FOSS is like the highway system" suggests the government should be funding FOSS, and/or that tolls are entirely reasonable. ;)