Charge money to write software. Charge money to maintain software. Don't charge money for making copies of software. - - - - > the pragmatic reality is that

Charge money to write software. Charge money to maintain software. Don't charge money for making copies of software. - - - - > the pragmatic reality is that FOSS developers live in a material world, a market economy, and need to make money somehow. That's the point of leverage right there: Let's transform the economy so that machines do the scut work and no one has to "earn" a living. To me that is the whole point of computers. The obvious thing to do with them is create a kind of secular, pragmatic, realistic utopia. Of course you can't cure the human condition with machines, but you can eliminate most of the nitty-gritty problems that people have, like acquiring food, shelter, clothing, transportation, education, health, and so on. That's where the "extraordinary and even spiritual ... idea of a global, voluntary, collaborative yet competitive network of people sharing their knowledge and work and building together something that can challenge even the largest commercial organizations." should be headed. (Otherwise you're just automating the existing stuff, which, frankly, doesn't seem all that well thought out.) Rather than trying to embed in the existing economy, computer programmers should seek to transform it. The invention of the transistor and the Turing Machine together has unlocked a flood of resources (not unlike how oil unlocked a similar flood) and we can direct that flood to "lift all boats".