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I think the most important lesson to learn from free software is that after people have enough money to put food on the table they're willing to put time into something with no monetary benefit

Minitrope @minitrope

@jordyd exactly!

I think this is a very good counter-example of the general statement saying "people would stop working or innovating if they don't have any incentive to do so".

There always are incentives, but most people think only in _monetary_ incentive.