While I agree with you in principle, after reading the blog post I can only say it did work out quite well for Oliver. He works on what he likes full time and t

While I agree with you in principle, after reading the blog post I can only say it did work out quite well for Oliver. He works on what he likes full time and that's already more than what most of us can say. Would his own enterprise tool have made him richer? Possibly. But he himself says that it didn't have many enterprisey features at the time it was still his hobby project. Pretty sure he didn't reach that conclusion on his own and had someone at RedHat to guide him on the way. In any case, nothing is stopping him now from starting his own company and consulting practice. It's still his open srouce project. Maybe he just doesn't want to do that and there's nothing wrong with that. You know who else was a genius that didn't want to sell things? Steve Wozniak. He even gave up most of his Apple stock to colleagues who he felt deserved getting it. Then there's Linus Torvalds. For some people, there are stronger motivations for building a product than running a company.