...having a demo version of windows does not count as "having it".
It's a paid product. Windows Home costs 139$. And if you bought a laptop or pre-built PC with windows on it, you have already paid for the license as part of the price. And since most people buy pre-built PCs, or laptops, most people thus do pay for the windows license.
Given away? Windows is a paid product. And there are other (free!) operating systems that are not driven by profit.
It shows where Microsoft's mind is at. And it won't stop here.
But I want to give away my work for free for the betterment of humanity, as long as I get a reasonable standard of living in return.
Does it make me a freeloader if I specifically want to remove my own possibility for becoming rich? As long as it's ensured nobody will needlessly suffer?
For 1., the big issue is that there constantly are appearing new standards in display technologies. Two semi-recent examples are HDR and VRR, both of which X11 struggles with, and implementing those into X11 has been said to be painful by its developers.
Disobeying can also be fun :3
What do you mean they had to scrap the submarine
For white collar jobs that is pretty much true. With a few exceptions, I cannot force more than that out of myself and still feel fine afterwards.
Unfortunately, large-scale systems change slowly due to inertia and the distances involved. Unless you introduce extreme amounts of energy like the dinosaur killing meteor.
Even then it's happening ridiculously fast considering changes of this scale typically happen over tens of thousands of years at least.
It really does feel like we're not really built for doing more or less the same thing, for most/half of our days, for 40+ years.
I feel like you didn't read my reply
In addition, the paid versions still track you