Political slogans usually aren't worth entertaining in any serious debate, that's the point. Nonetheless, I'll bite: Linux is only free if your time is worthle

Political slogans usually aren't worth entertaining in any serious debate, that's the point. Nonetheless, I'll bite: Linux is only free if your time is worthless. That time has value is an idea that has been exploited to create so-called time-based currency and time banking. Free software: more expensive than money. The amount of man hours put in some projects means the costs of a from-scratch rewrite is probably higher than to simply bite the bullet and go by licensing terms. This may or may not be true depending on the project, though some may indeed have a utility and COCOMO score that makes it so. We make free software affordable. Pure marketing slogan, not worth discussing. Probably Cygnus' way of saying they had great support and contract development services (which they did, they're responsible for a large part of making GCC what it is today).