The software industry had/has a lucrative, self-sustaining business model that was very much the same as every other business on the planet. I'm a part of that industry, so I do have a business model. IOW, I'm not the one trying to tell someone that they shouldn't charge for their efforts/products, so it seems to me that the onus on coming up with a workable model is on those that have been trying to institute the "everything is free" model for some time, not me.

As for your other comment: I believe there's a saying that covers this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_my_aunt_had_balls,_she%27d...