The title is a little provocative and maybe not true, but then how do you explain Microsoft's desire to obtain royalties from providers and users of free and open source software. I had this to say on Burning Bird:
The evolution here is interesting. It's hard not to think that software itself has no value. What does have value is what you can do with the software. That idea has been around for a long time, but people always still paid for the software giving it the lie. Now, people don't want to pay for software anymore.
People don't pay for Google's advertising system, they pay for the sales it can bring. And, that's what Google sells. It's that kind of value proposition that pays for software development now.
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