You seem to think that society deserves to be treated with benevolence, and responds well to it. As a member of society, I have learned that if something is ac

You seem to think that society deserves to be treated with benevolence, and responds well to it. As a member of society, I have learned that if something is actually all that great, it will eventually become open source or be replaced by open source. Jeff Atwood had an article about this a long long time ago. Society learns also from being punished. If people did not give away their work for free, society would learn more quickly that you have to pay people to work. Then society could benefit 1) from paying people to work 2) from having a claim on the work they produce. They aren't going to learn if people keep bending over.