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@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno However I feel like I'm not addressing the main concern of the video, which is how should free software engineers make money?

The idea that all free software is actually being developed by proprietary big tech engineers in their spare time is a myth.

In fact, most notable free software projects are developed and maintained by successful companies who hire top engineers and pay their employees well.

Yes, we're talking about multi million dollar companies that hire the top engineers like Docker, Canonical, SUSE, Apache, MariaDB, Nextcloud, Blender, etc.

Top engineers getting paid very well to develop free software is not like a pipe dream, as Louis paints it in this video.

This is already reality for thousands of engineers worldwide. And we did not need non-commercial restrictions to achieve this.