That's not what I said.

I said: note that you are not obligated to maximize profit and you can give away more features for free and that it generally makes the world a kinder place to do so.

The point being that they have a choice. Contrary to what people are saying they are supposed to do, charge as much as possible, they can still choose to do something else. This is of course the normal mindset everywhere else, but HN seems to forget about it.