The idea of tying source code to sustenance will soon be history. We will all remember the days when adding some few thousand smart lines of code meant you could gain notoriety and through cheap viral copy expand those traits to wealth and worth. But software has always just been zeros and ones, the value only happens when interpreted.

The future is sharing, you may not believe because your income is tied to being clever. Long term we are all more clever because of the sharing, and your contribution sometimes does not add to your personal success. Asking a company or its individuals to forego their success will not make them add more to our future. But they will add to our future nonetheless, because they all feel like we all do, that adding is what we are all meant to do.