"Imagine a world where proprietary software doesn’t exist, because it is obsolete; entire generations of people are taught to value freedom, and to staunchly de

"Imagine a world where proprietary software doesn’t exist, because it is obsolete; entire generations of people are taught to value freedom, and to staunchly defend it, helping each other learn and grow (and produce better software in the process, with less bugs, because people are now free to do that, without relying on some evil company)" Rhetoric aside (all companies are evil) I feel like this argument fails at some level because Free Software has not yet figured out a business model that would work in a world with no proprietary software. Ironically current popular non-propritary software tends to be more Open Source than Free, and much of that is currently relying on "some evil company" for funding. If the suggested imagine happened, and all company funding dried up (as hoped for) then how does one make a living writing software? And if you can't make a living why do it at all. One could take video as an example. With funding you get "evils" like Disney, marvel and HBO. Without funding you get what? Tiktok? Even popular YouTube is funded directly by advertising, sponsorships etc. So is the cost of "quality software" (free, open or proprietary) that proprietary software exists?