@hakui @iwillbite
>the law forbids you from murdering your competition
>that's not free market
Libertarian moment or anarchist moment ?

To quote Rms:
"Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where they allow only monopoly."

Does making their software under GPL change anything ? They can still trademark and still sell it.
Can they sell it like a physical tool, yes, but that's unwise. Can they sell it and run maintenance as a service ? yes, and that's the best balanced exchange you can provide to user.

There's a clear issue with digital tools that haven't been taken into account, and that's the nature of them being able to emulate "god" via proxy omnipotence/omnipresence functions, the fact that their maintenance can only be done by specialized minds, that their copies are penniless to make and finally duplicating/copying does not require specialized minds, makes the whole thing completely alien to what humanity is used too.

Software-market freedom only allows the natural rights you have with physical tools to be applied on digital tools.