@frgough
Actually, there are tons of free lunches. When you're invited over to a friend's house for lunch, it is free. Entirely free. When you give food to somebody in the streets that is starving, you're giving them a free lunch as well.
There is a popular saying in Costa Rica "Cada ladron juzga por su opinion." It paraphrases to "if you're a thief you assume everyone steals." I find it sad that people think like you. There are tons of people who develop open source simply because we enjoy to give it to the people. Think of artists. Is a painting only beautiful if the painter gets paid for it? Surely artists want to make a living. But they don't paint to get paid (although I am sure there are exceptions.) They paint because they enjoy expressing themselves through art.
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