> I think that open source / free software is the greatest trick I'd argue the greatest trick was to have people believe that open source and free software are

> I think that open source / free software is the greatest trick I'd argue the greatest trick was to have people believe that open source and free software are the same thing, when in actual fact free software addresses pretty much the points you raise. Nothing stops a dev from providing a commercial license for a gpl library (if they hold the copyright or have a corresponding cla of course) and I can tell from experience that companies are happy to pay non negligible amounts for these if they're useful.