We have to pay the people to do that work — those passionate contributors grinding through those long hours and nights who believe in open source values.

This all sounds a little too melodramatic for me to get behind. It’s nice that they want to pay people for their work, but to imply that the only way to do it is their way seems to me to be the disingenuous side of the argument. A lot of free software organizations get by just fine on donations.

Simply repackaging the code that these individuals produce and reselling it as is, with no value added, makes the production of this open source software unsustainable.

The narrative that repackaging adds “no value” is a disingeuous one, as well.