What I'm saying is that all projects NEED to have a shared financial incentive in order to have any chance at becoming self-sustaining and encouraging collabora

What I'm saying is that all projects NEED to have a shared financial incentive in order to have any chance at becoming self-sustaining and encouraging collaboration. It's orthogonal to the quality of the product. Monetary incentives provide the baseline for survival of the project in our modern, godless society. Look at any popular OSS project which exists today and you will see a connection to big money. This is no coincidence. It's hypocritical to suggest that this is dirty or unethical when the entire economy including all popular open source projects depend on these same kinds of financial incentives to exist. The modern monetary system is corrupt to the core and yet it drives every single human interaction and every single collaboration. Let's not pretend it doesn't.