This is depressing. The author doesn't seem to understand that free software and/or open source software does not mean no price. Sometimes, release software un

This is depressing. The author doesn't seem to understand that free software and/or open source software does not mean no price. Sometimes, release software under a free license does make a lot of business sense. Sun is a hardware company, and by releasing some of their software under a free license, they are hoping for more developers to adopt their platforms. Remember the "developers, developers, developers"...Microsoft is trying to do the same thing. The express editions of visual studio, which are proprietary, are meant to do that. I would expect an MS employee to know that. Now whether any of these companies succeed in increasing adoption by releasing software under an open license depends entirely on how good a job they do.