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What do you mean? Payment isn't anti-FOSS at all, it's just a lot harder to make money when the source is libre.
I'm glad you think so. I remember Richard stallman banging on a bongo singing that charging for software is greed.
I just want people to have enough incentives for their time that things are safe and the workers paid properly. I wish more open source devs got paid.