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Why, when one tries, the answer must always be another implementation with 'more' features instead of creating the cleanest possible implementation with 'the least' features allowing maximum compatibility?
This was said in 'The Next Lisp'
No. He starts talking about FOSS - MIT and BSD stuff. This is nearly in every case free economically. And the GPL stuff is almost always free economically too. In practice if you give people complete freedom over sources you really have to give them the same freedom you have to change and distribute. So by undercutting price tends aymptotically to zero. People know that and so they make it free from the outset. They make their money from hand-holding.
Nonsense. This is tantamount to saying that unless a person's ideas are widely accepted or he's rich he should shut up if his ideas are not popular. I don't think he cares much whether you use Qi or not.
He's linked the two essays because he sees there is a connection between funding and development and he's right.