It is likely an unpopular view, but IMHO the open source community's bête noire about charging for stuff is effectively of its own doing. Open source has been

It is likely an unpopular view, but IMHO the open source community's bête noire about charging for stuff is effectively of its own doing. Open source has been driven by quite a vocal community of "stick it to the man" generation of freetards who live by the faux-arguments that: (a) "because its open source it must be better" (b) "X is free, so why should anybody pay EvilCorp for a license ?" Then you have software like LibreOffice that literally shout FREE in their own product name ! The Open Source community has effectively won its own race to the bottom and its going to be tough if not impossible to reverse that trend. Especially as the open source community also bitches and moans about any sort of restrictive license. Don't misunderstand me, I understand the arguments for seeking to charge for open source. I'm just saying there's a genie that needs to be put back in its bottle somehow....