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that's a funny way to say marketing.
I think most FOSS zealots simply despise capitalism in general, they want everyone else to be poor like them. Kinda like socialism.
Its impressive how drastically wrong you are
No, my ideal economic system is capitalist in nature, I just don't trust western powers (the enemy) with my data. I say western powers, but that includes Russia and China and other things.
One well known exception to your comment is Linus Torvalds. He didn't mind moving to the USA to make some good money after being a student who could afford a whopping 386! And unlike some people believe, the GPL does not restrict a programmer to make money.
Indeed, his views are not quite as extreme as RMS for example, Linus specifically did not want to require GPLv3 which is probably sacrilege to Stallman.