> organizations have elected to self-support That is the conundrum of Open Source: Great open source software will be so easy to maintain that everybody can d

> organizations have elected to self-support That is the conundrum of Open Source: Great open source software will be so easy to maintain that everybody can do that for themselves. Therefore the economic incentive for Open Source authors is to create software which requires maintenance. Either way, someone has to pay in the end, either for the license, or for the maintenance. There's no free lunch.