He said exactly the same thing I said: that just because you can make money
from something unethical does not mean that it's OK.
He compared it to theft (I think) as an analogy. This was an incredibly
simple analogy: proprietary software is unethical, theft is unethical. In the
same way we don't excuse theft because it makes you money, he doesn't excuse
proprietary software because it makes people money.
An analogy like this does not imply that you think the two things are the
same. Please, this is not that complicated. I shouldn't have to explain to
you how analogies work.