That's what he's advocating... No, he's not. He's advocating that someone else needs to do that work for him, so that he can benefit. He's explicitly asking ot

That's what he's advocating... No, he's not. He's advocating that someone else needs to do that work for him, so that he can benefit. He's explicitly asking other people to do the work at the end: Who will pick up the mantle and actively develop the next game-changing FOSS web server? Fork it! NB that statement was not - perhaps I will fork it, or perhaps I will contribute to a new FOSS web server, or should we help nginx solve this issue some other way, but a plea to someone else to do all the hard work so that he can use it for free. You say that like all approaches to making money are the same and it's disingenuous. That wasn't the intention or I believe the implication, the analogy above about locking user data away is absurd and unhelpful. That's exactly what good open source foundations do. I take it you are unfamiliar with the apache web server project? Some OSS works on the model of selling services, some works on the model of selling extra features and commercial licenses. Personally I'm agnostic as to which is best, but this is not a new or unusual development. Many companies from Ubuntu to Firefox do commercial deals and request money indirectly or directly to support their product. If you don't like those deals or disagree with the particular method used, you can use other software, but whining about it is not productive.