But that has always been true, from the beginning. It's baked in to the FOSS model and always has been. If the companies had made a bad call in structuring the

But that has always been true, from the beginning. It's baked in to the FOSS model and always has been. If the companies had made a bad call in structuring their business and owned up to it I think we'd be having a very different conversation than we are. We're here because they failed to own up to it and instead tried to get people to raise pitchforks against AWS. Never mind that their intended model was the obviously doomed model of reselling AWS's hosting with a commission on top, and never mind that it was the trade-off they chose when they chose to release their software as FOSS and get the boost in adoption that comes with. I do fully agree with antirez above that we need a new plan for funding FOSS. But I think that's a poor justification for the rug pulling and vilifying that the existing companies did.