Recent Discussion on Unfairness in FLOSS Economics

Referenced Essay, How I Stumbled on the Internet's Biggest Blind Spot:

https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet...

From https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.mac.announce/... :

"Our previous policy of distributing system software via user groups and electronic bulletin boards reached only a small percentage of our customer base while often discouraging traditional software resellers from stocking and promoting new releases of system software."

I wonder why?

'Unfairness' is an incorrect term and brings to mind whining.

It is inefficient.

It is sub-optimal, for the progress of humanity, that good, motivated developers have to spend most of their time (or frankly, any time) on capitalist nonsense.

Work on a supermarket checkout, feed a few people, make a few pounds.

Fix a big in the linux kernel, millions will use it, you get zero.

Totally and utterly bonkers.