GPL, BSD, Opensource/Free Software movement.

I've be a mindless supporter of these movements for years now not because I was a developer myself but because most of them provided me with a lot of useful free software.

However now that I'm becoming more of a programmer I'm questioning the ideology behind these movements.

1. For which situations are these intended? For every developer?
2. Doesn't it go against the developer himself? How can he secure profit while still sustain such projects?

Just willing to learn.
Thanks.

>>60-61
Exactly, but what we are alluding to where Stallman and other free software advocates in their writing call for abolition of proprietary software and I compared that to the socialist and communist ideologues that called for the abolition of physical private property ownership, as well as ownership of capital (capitalism).

It's an attempt to force code to stay public.
Exactly. Keeping code out of private hands.