The reading of Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin might help you to understand what motivates individuals. Freedom is important to many. Sometimes actions have a component that is economic, and another that may be artistic or moral. That is, I think, why you have difficulty understanding something that lies, in part outside of your culture of knowledge.

I would start with C.P. Snow's Essay concerning the Two Cultures as he called them and reflect that perhaps now we have many more than two, and they are not talking to each other.

Patents and Copyrights are not denied by the Free Culture Movement. In fact the Free Culture movement relies on copyright and could not exist without it! It does want to see Patents limited in their scope, and not to include software, or business methods, or to be exceptionally vague. But there exist many for profit entities who would like to see that.

The Free Culture Movement is a part of many disruptive business models, and it is through those disruptive business models/technologies that markets have realized their value to society. Why demonize a particular disruptive business model?

Hey, I'm actually interested in open source because it is disruptive. I just find a lot of the hype around it misleading.

My post was about how Linux can ramp up revenues. Even if all open source folks read Jefferson and Franklin, thats not going to do the job.

The notion of actions having multiple components is easy to understand. I'm suggesting that open source focus more on its business and technological aspects.