«It would not even be close to morally defensible to ask these people to forgo time to play with their kids or walk their dogs in order to develop and maintain

«It would not even be close to morally defensible to ask these people to forgo time to play with their kids or walk their dogs in order to develop and maintain the software that drives the profit in other people's companies. The right way to go—the moral way to go—and by far the most productive way to go is to pay the developers so they can make a living from the software they love.» I'm... not really sure that "giving software away for free and then making impassioned posts on the Internet that people have a moral obligation to pay you to continue to work on it" is a strategy that has "success" written all over it.