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> and people should be allowed to profit from their own work without giving it away for free.

I'm kind of curious how, even if people are allowed to profit, they'll be able to. Consider Wikipedia, OpenStreetMaps, and Linux.

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Consider Linux, MySQL, PHP, and then consider Facebook.

Facebook is a scary example. Facebook is 1% open source contributions funded by 99% proprietary walled garden. Scaled down to something like rubinius, the scale fraction would be something like working a proprietary company/job all year and writing some open source on vacation days.

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