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.

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If you're entire argument is that he is "communistic" because he has a strong abolitionist opinion on an issue, then I think we can call most politically motivated people "communistic"
I'm not calling him "communistic" simply because of that, I'm saying that his critiques on "intellectual property" and proprietary software draw strong parallels with socialist and communist ideologues who had critiqued the ideas of private property and private ownership of capital, and called for their abolition, albeit tangible things rather than software as with Stallman.