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I think the most important lesson to learn from free software is that after people have enough money to put food on the table they're willing to put time into something with no monetary benefit
Libre software and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. In fact a lot of libre software work is done for profit. Too many people look at the free software movement as 'free beer' and miss the real message.