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So have many others, except they didn’t start a company based on it. As soon as it is part of a company, it is no longer free and open
https://opensource.org/osd/
Paradoxically (or not), restrictions on selling software is a fundamental violation of freedom. When the OSS movement says free, it means freedom as in free to do what you want, not free as in free beer. Of course, that freedom also includes the freedom to give it away.
So in practice, that usually results in exactly what you lament: free software with a business model on top to support its development and pay programmers so they can eat.
Why? It depends on the business model, even RMS says it’s ok to make money with open source