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Community expectations aren't necessarily correct and probably won't help paying the salary of thousands of engineers.

Sorry, but the people who started this in no way were prioritizing anyone's salary. They had a vision of freedom, and THAT VISION -- more than "someone trying to do a company" -- is what got the best parts of this software going. One company that can't make the numbers work ain't my problem.

And you're wrong. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

"Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development". Paying salaries is a way to fund developers. Ergo, distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds to pay the salaries of free software developers.

I said prioritizing, I didn't say anything like "didn't consider at all"

I didn't say they were correct. I said be aware of them.

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