> charge whom if you don't work in a company? I don't understand the question. You charge the customer, the form can be freelancer, co-op, partnership, corp,

> charge whom if you don't work in a company? I don't understand the question. You charge the customer, the form can be freelancer, co-op, partnership, corp, whatever, it's orthogonal. > If it was the case nobody would be writing open source code to begin with. FWIW, this is what RMS does and recommends others to do. > Do you think students writing and maintaining open source libraries are being compensated by their university or something? Some are, some aren't. What's your point?