Those were my very thoughts. And you stole them. Sorry, couldn't resist. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
Then your children will be next. The point is that a free OS needs free libraries. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. So far, the Universe is winning.