> He wrote in his post that he does it for his benefit He benefits from the software existing. He benefits from deriving a paper or two from running the platfo

> He wrote in his post that he does it for his benefit He benefits from the software existing. He benefits from deriving a paper or two from running the platform. Neither has to do with it being open source. The open source aspect benefits users only. > The choice of software license doesn't give you a right to be a jerk. It doesn't give anybody the right to contact the author, either. Since "jerk" in this context means "not responding to sincere communication": if you send a sincere email to the CEO of IBM because you have proposals on how to improve SPSS (a tool that, as economist and professor, you're certainly familiar with), do you expect a substantial answer that isn't driven by the CEO's extensive staff and PR department? Give that man a secretary and PR department and I'm sure he'll answer all communication.