Z:gnu-www-ja-rieti--745017-What about another issue peopl/en

What about another issue people sometimes raise: Could we possibly develop enough software and make it free? The answer is obvious because we already are. The people who ask this question are like asking could airplanes really stay up? Well, I flew in one. Probably all of you have flown in airplanes too. I think they can stay up. In free software today, we have hundreds of people, maybe thousands, getting paid to develop free software. But we have over half a million volunteer developers of free software working part time and not getting paid and developing a lot of software.