apache, vnc, ssh, mysql, gimp (yes I know its not photoshop - but please show me a competing 'free' editor?), inkscape, dia, .... etc etc etc
are all good programs

Q: Why do we assume humanity is not so limited?
A: Because strict materialists are equivelent to narcissistic athiest fundamentalists?

Well, that would be a completely fascinating point if it wasn't COMPLETELY WRONG:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution#History

The BSD's want their compiler back, so they can have a fully BSD system,
as they once essentially had in the early eighties before AT&T was permitted to compete in the computing sphere and decided to sue UCB

Also - this entire mechanism of sharing code dates back to the dawn of code itself -
the GPL was a reaction to RMS's bad experiences when people decided to be jerks about it -
which itself was when money *started* being introduce w/r/t software licensing..
previously to that era (before the 70s-80s) 'computer' money came mostly from hardware/OS/compiler combinantions and support,
and people (e.g. businesses - because 'people' didn't own computers) hired their own developers for applications themselves

how does this:

You do not have to develop software for free. You can ask to be paid for the time you spend developing software. You could use something like a Kickstarter. If you made software and are now just selling it and didn't do any of the other two, you could sell services (such as support), physical items (discs), or ask people to donate.

significantly contradict this:

And he thinks you should only receive enough pay to scrape by selling consulting services for the software that you wrote for free.

or is it that you don't like what the OP said, and so you call him a straw-man-caller thereby yourself resorting to a straw man?

IMHO Its also an *actually* superior compiler, because it uses a non-GPL license -

If you note the subtext in RMS's note and elsewhere,
the only time anyone chooses a non-GPL license is because of 'technical' reasons...
despite the fact that there are some very passionate people in the BSD-style camp who care just as much for software freedom -
but think that the GPL is an incorrect means to achieve it.

(see also: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 )

Personally I agree, since it forces the economic hand of the committed open-source developer by essentially requiring him/her to seek employment elsewhere
thereby reducing the amount of time that a developer can work on publically-useful software, and strenghening the non-free ecosystem - if I hit it big
with unuseful-but-proprietary app #1, and can spend time doing OSS code - I would.. this is not a possible scenario in the GPL world - since the only
means to deriving income in a GPL-pure environment is by volunteering of labor and time (e.g. system maintenance, customization, etc)

Who is actively pushing their kernel changes back into the mainline kernel? and contributing to LLVM development?

Yes, I think OP did.

Probably for the same reason that noone makes a rival to:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/funambol/ and other AGPL software which requires code signover to get a commit bit..

that spinning up a rival project with insufficient resources based on a fork is cost / time / resource and mind-share prohibitive..

but hey, funambol is 'free software' right.. just try to make your own competing cloud storage company based on their 'open code' -
you cant.. so they have an effective monopoly of this type of application commercially, yet while maintaining strict 'GNU' 'freedom'
standards..

software doesn't exist in a vaccum - although if you're paycheck has come from a university your entire life and you've never had
to work to earn a dime for yourself you might think otherwise and thusly pontificate.. (cough RMS)

plus, in the GPL case you mention, this is a n00b jerk move and everyone will think you're a weenie, and they would be correct.

Umm...

OpenBSD is not a company - so a 'marketing guy' is superfluous -
and there is absolutely 0% chance of them ever taking over 'like Money Tribbles'
and there is no 'storehouse of value' except for keeping the project going

cheers for the math - plus a couple things to remember:

1) These are mostly *build* machines - so they are frequently operating near the top end of their energy consumption and generating the top end of heat
2) some of these are pretty old / less power efficient machines, and there are a few disk arrays in there as well, which brings them more into the 800-1200w range
        easily

FreeBSD's pf still came from OpenBSD...

Hmm... I think they came from CHICAGO and GENEVA and AUSTRIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_%28economics%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement

riight.. because all software test cases cover all scenarios every time

Google is not legally required to have data integrity, to care about your data, or to have any concern for a system or application crash,
and their applications, when crashing, don't affect anyone in a 'real' way (e.g. losing peoples entire savings, having them die, etc)
other than whiny users until they can fix the issue or spin the loss of user data in the press.

Just because Teh Googz is doing it, doesn't mean it's the right technology for all applications.

DURR

Your whole argument presumes that said fingerprinting, scanning, etc. is justified itself..

DURR

Is VisualBasic better than VisualNodeJSDevStudioWithIPTablesAndAppStoreSupportPlugin2014?

lol