"absence of state is true for anything involving wide area networking" I agree, but I think we are talking about different things. Regarding money, you can be

"absence of state is true for anything involving wide area networking" I agree, but I think we are talking about different things. Regarding money, you can be paid a thousand dollars every day for writing FOSS and putting it on github. Still there is no money within the FOSS community because everyone in the community gets it for free. And the person writing it contributes it according to their ability. Also, if Redhat sells their software to companies under a different license, again it has nothing to do with money within the community. It has to do with the larger capitalist society within which they exist.