it serves everyone. it's technology. free intellectual "property". free and open innovations. obviously these tools amplify their user's productivity. corps ar

it serves everyone. it's technology. free intellectual "property". free and open innovations. obviously these tools amplify their user's productivity. corps are organized to be economically productive, hence they benefit enormously from free power tools. hobbists benefit too, but since their productivity is low they benefit relatively little in terms of economic surplus. (sure, I might do my taxes using free software, but my taxes are also trivial, two lines and that's it. sure, I might whip up a blog/website using free software to share stuff with people, but again it's economic productivity is already zero, it doesn't matter if now it's a technologically amazing site. and sure, I work as a freelancer using these free tools, but again my productivity is very limited compared to, relative to the systems I work on for corps.) the solution is probably a mix of a bit of wealth tax and consumption taxes.