Counterargument: Linux is on most servers, smart phones, and information appliances. Primarily because its scaling cost is near $0/host, and some users feed u

Counterargument: Linux is on most servers, smart phones, and information appliances. Primarily because its scaling cost is near $0/host, and some users feed useful resources back into the digital karma pool. If the goal is to share an opensource project as widely as possible, than most will sell associated services to generate support revenue. Some operate as a nonprofit entity to offer tax breaks on supported project services. Trying to cram a GPL/BSD/Apache project into a 1990's shareware license model will usually fail. Beer is good... Milkshakes are good... A Beer-Milkshake is a terrible idea =)