On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:

If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you have to pay
service charges to the company that maintains it.

With all due respect, where's the motivation for the poor bugger who writes the free software?  I believe that there is still something missing from this equation.

 
If the software and specifications are free, you have a wider choice of
companies to maintain the elevator and the service charges would
potentially be lower.

So it's okay to pay the company to maintain the elevator but not the software developer?  Where's the motivation for the software developer?