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On June 29, 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU General Public License, version 3. What happened since then? Federico Biancuzzi had the opportunity to discuss many subjects with the FSF's founder and president Richard Stallman.
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You're clearly looking at things from a salesman's point of view. RMS is not a salesman, he's a programmer. From a programmer's point of view it shouldn't really matter if you get paid for developing commercial software or custom software. It only matters from a salesman's point of view. And salesmen can always find other commodities to sell if they can't sell software.
The point that you seem to be happily ignoring is that developing commercial non-free software employs a radically smaller number of programmers than developing custom software which has never been meant to be sold or distributed to others. And if organizations and companies can't buy commercial software, there will be an increasing need to hire more programmers to do in-house software customization and development. That means more well-paid jobs for skilful programmers.
And here's a point that is worth repeating: custom in-house software, that is never distributed to others, is neither free or non-free.