If we made it illegal to charge money for, we would have just as many good fonts as we do now. We should just change the law to outlaw making money this way.
And yeah, it’s great that we happened upon a quasi-religious movement in software that has managed to align itself with commercial interests. OSS, in my opinion, will go down as one of humanity’s greatest achievements.
Want to know why it’s such an achievement? Because it was profoundly unlikely and continues to be difficult in all sorts of ways.
Question: What’s your job and your approximate hourly rate? Is it something that requires years or decades of training and do you charge $0?