Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--735016-The current system were chosen/en

The current system were chosen by the people who invest in software development, because it gives them the possibility of making the most possible money, not because it's the only way anyone can ever come up with money to support a system development effort. In fact, even as recently as ten and fifteen years ago it was common to support software development in other ways. For example, those Digital operating systems that were free, even in the early seventies, were developed by people who were paid for their work. Many useful programs has been developed at universities. Nowadays those programs are often sold, but fifteen years ago they were usually free, yet the people were paid for their work.