Re:Stallman is a zealot (Score 1)

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Also there is still the large unanswered question of how everyone can make money in a free software world.

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For someone to do something professionally, as in to devote most of their time to it, that thing has to pay. People have to eat, they have to pay rent, they have to buy things they need. That means they need a job that pays. So if there's no way to make money off their software, well then they can't have a job making it. It can be a hobby, but not a job.

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A hobby can't become a job just because people toss you a couple hundred dollars now and again. It's got to be something you can support yourself on.

Thus far, I've heard no solutions and can't come up with any myself.

Here's a possible solution.

You need a job, because you need money, because you need to support you and your family. That means providing them with food, clothes, shelter, entertainment, trips, etc.

Please make an imagination effort for just 30 seconds and try to think of a world without money, where all these needs are fulfilled, and you don't work because you are compelled to, but because you choose to. You don't starve if you don't work, you just get bored.

This is a vision of Jacque Fresco (google for Future By Design), and I think this vision is something possible. Not right now, because it requires major cultural changes, but it would be a nice next step for the human civilization.