Not to go against what you're claiming, but to play devils advocate for a moment if you take a look at Invision Power Board[0] (now called IP.Board), they were

Not to go against what you're claiming, but to play devils advocate for a moment if you take a look at Invision Power Board[0] (now called IP.Board), they were once a free and open source bulletin board / forum system. In fact, their slogan was: Apache, PHP and mySQL are all free, why should you pay for a bulletin board?[1] They've since completely reversed their stance on that and now require payment for IP.Board. I'm sure there are other examples of this happening too, that's just the one that I remember most clearly when it comes to companies taking once free software and then charging for it. [0]http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/ http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/ [1]http://web.archive.org/web/20020912123518/http://www.invisionboard.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20020912123518/http://www.invisio...?