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This argument assumes developers have access to the market. In reality most of us are not in a position to benefit directly from selling software, regardless of how "good" or "bad" it is. We can only sell our labour for a pre-negotiated salary to an employer who will then pocket the profits. In such an environment, sharing, taking pride in, and building upon each other's work makes a lot of sense and works in the developer's long-term interest (as well as your employer-du-jour's).

Free software, just like proprietary, could be of good or bad quality. This depends on the people who wrote it, not so much on the choice of licensing terms.

> It makes me sad that I can get paid so much more to not make software than I can get paid to make software.

I can relate.