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For a short time I was all about being a FOSS zealot using M$ on email signatures and such, because I had a confortable university student life where most bills were paid by someone else, then I realised what it means to have to pay bills for ourselves.

People are realising that PD and Shareware make more sense when one wants to make a living from software, the alternative being putting everything behind SaaS walls.

Not every use case can be done selling hardware to go alongside the software, consulting, conference talks, selling books (which are often pirated by those that should donate to FOSS)