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Paying people to work on open source is good actually
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I see this way too rarely nowadays: "Free as in speech, not free as in beer".
It's definitely a much older expression, but I first remember hearing it around 2000, and that helped me ynderstand the philosophy of OSS. Whereas many would shrug at the fact that you could buy FreeBSD (because they thought "as in beer"), they tended to ignore the benefit of the liberty aspect of it all.
Sure, you could pay for the convenience of having your favorite OS on official disks shipped to your door. But you didn't have to. Free doesn't always mean unpaid.