> One counterexample doesn't make an argument "weak", if there are thousands of cases to the contrary. Are there "thousands of cases to the contrary", though?

> One counterexample doesn't make an argument "weak", if there are thousands of cases to the contrary. Are there "thousands of cases to the contrary", though? About what percentage of FOSS developers do you suppose even try making payment a prerequisite for a ready-to-run official binary? Or for that matter, about what percentage even attempts to monetize at all? That's what makes the argument weak: it reeks strongly of "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".