I may have misread your post a bit, I was responding mainly to the dual-licensing suggestion (which read to me like a suggestion for getting around the right to

I may have misread your post a bit, I was responding mainly to the dual-licensing suggestion (which read to me like a suggestion for getting around the right to fork; i.e. the "open source in name only" business model). Your points about service businesses are well-taken, though I think this is a hard and uncertain road to turning a profit. As for turning free software into a money-maker, I think not-for-profit is the stable state of a perfectly efficient software industry. That doesn't mean programmers couldn't be well paid, but it's likely nothing that would be terribly attractive to VC.