Or contract work - it's quite possible to pay someone to write an app (or, with free software, modify an app) to suit your specific requirements. I can well imaging a bounty setup working well for things like making Maemo UI specific ports of existing apps.

It's hardly irrelevant. No-one here is arguing that people shouldn't be able to sell things for a fee in principle (and I think it's unlikely any free software people would - it's completely not the point); the argument is that Ovi is all about proprietary software, and there's no need to be sad that a system for distributing and promoting proprietary software doesn't work too well on a free OS.

If people want to ague for a (Nokia supported?) system for paying for FOSS apps, either as donations or as bounties then I'm all for it.