This is one of the biggest problems in open source; people refusing to embrace anything commercial. For profit open source ventures are inevitable; the sooner we embrace them and look to identify what works and what doesn't, the better off we'll all be.

***********************

How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source — Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has spoken out against a number of open source projects for profiteering from their code. — The two examples Mullenweg cites are the open source forum platform Vanilla, which recently started including links …
Source: TechCrunch

Read Full Article