Editing Free software movement (section)

=== Programmer income ===
{{main|Business models for open-source software}}
Stallman said that this is where people get the misconception of "free": there is no wrong in programmers' requesting payment for a proposed project, or charging for copies of free software.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Selling Free Software |url=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html |url-status=live |access-date=2021-04-04 |website=GNU |archive-date=2018-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207222030/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html }}</ref> Restricting and controlling the user's decisions on use is the actual violation of freedom. Stallman defends that in some cases, monetary incentive is not necessary for motivation since the pleasure in expressing creativity is a reward in itself.<ref name="The GNU Manifesto" /> Conversely, Stallman admits that it is not easy to raise money for free software projects.<ref name="LAS300RMS">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radmjL5OIaA&t=0h53m46s| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/radmjL5OIaA| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|work=GNU/LAS s20e10 |title=Interview with Richard Stallman |publisher=[[Linux action show]] |quote=[[Richard Stallman|RMS]]: ''I'm not gone to claim that I got a way to make it easier to raise money to pay people who write free software. We all know, that to some extent there are ways to do that, but we all know that they are limited, they are not as broad as we would like.'' |access-date=2014-08-22 |date=2012-03-11 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>