OSS and credit cards have existed for every single day of the last ten years. Did the community just not notice that taking credit cards on websites is done by

OSS and credit cards have existed for every single day of the last ten years. Did the community just not notice that taking credit cards on websites is done by substantially every business transacting on the Internet? Or were they just hiding their well-tested well-designed decent-UX commercially-supported OSS options on localhost until someone tried to commercialize the niche, to now be unleashed on Github with great fanfare? People have higher-expectations-than-are-warranted for "Some OSS developer (who is not me)" deciding to bite off a project on their behalf. The threat of this is routinely invoked to scare developers into not releasing software commercially. It's almost invariably overblown. Crikey, people told me 8 years ago that BCC was commercially non-viable because there existed OSS (with XML output for linking to an upcoming multimedia engine [+]) that was going to eat its lunch "as soon as it was marketed." + Seriously not making that up. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bingo-cards/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/bingo-cards/