> Nobody should leave gainful employment to attempt to compete.

That's not what I'm saying. You can thrive with an open source business model. I'm working for such a company.

Falsewoods software founders still believe about free and open source software in 2026

1. That's it's 100% made unpaid, outside business despite the numerous clues that it's not

(note to whom might read this thread: I edited my previous comment to tame it and make it a bit more constructive, piker cited something that doesn't appear anymore in my comment but that I indeed wrote)