"The tech world would have been way higher quality if Microsoft didn't have such an illegal monopoly over PCs and Desktops over these past decades with their shitty proprietary licensed software. Free and open source software drastically improves the quality of technology in every single way, it drastically improves society wherever technology has an influence over society. Do I suggest that open source free software developers shouldn't get paid? Absolutely not, they should get paid. This is why I think we should pay them way more through taxes for example, where logging of code submissions and measuring of code popularity would be a great way to pay open source free software programmers based on how popular and useful their software submissions are. They get paid other ways right now, through open source companies, through companies like Google who benefit greatly from the quality of open source. But for sure more can be done. Allowing Microsoft and Apple to shut down open source..." - Charbax