The free software community is small, and needs to grow. Many valuable projects chronically lack skilled, motivated developers with time to devote to them. Our potential developer base includes programmers in all fields and disciplines, and both students and working professionals. Our potential user base includes individuals and organizations standing to benefit from software projects we successfully pursue. The community must continue to grow.
Free software is about the software.
Our roots are in coders coding software for the benefit of themselves and their organizations, and for the pleasure of producing quality work. It is completely legitimate to profit monetarily from coding and supporting free and open applications. It's time, though, for the community to get back to its roots.