Last time I checked, Linux users already were shelling out money for support and documentation. So what? Is there something criminal about people getting paid for their work? (Cue Stallman, but he's got a salary. When programming is your livelihood, you can't release only free software.) The issue against MS is not that they charge for their products, but that they annihilate anyone who they consider to be in their way. The appeal of Linux is not (entirely) that you get something for nothing, but that the license allows the basic code to be freely downloaded, examined, modified and distributed, within fairly liberal limits.
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Last time I checked, Linux users already were shelling out money for support and documentation. So what? Is there something criminal about people getting paid for their work? (Cue Stallman, but he's got a salary. When programming is your livelihood, you can't release only free software.) The issue against MS is not that they charge for their products, but that they annihilate anyone who they consider to be in their way. The appeal of Linux is not (entirely) that you get something for nothing, but that the license allows the basic code to be freely downloaded, examined, modified and distributed, within fairly liberal limits.