Please, don't start pushing SaaS into FOSS under the guise of profitability. Sure, I'll admit that the support model (RedHat) has it's issues and probably keeps

Please, don't start pushing SaaS into FOSS under the guise of profitability. Sure, I'll admit that the support model (RedHat) has it's issues and probably keeps profits lower than competing proprietary solutions, but lets not forget the third model: up front sales. Here's a problem I run into frequently: I have a problem, but as a look for a software solution to that problem, I find 3 potential solutions. Of those solutions, one is a random sourceforge mish-mash that hasn't been maintained in years, and the other two are proprietary closed source solutions (which I try to avoid whenever possible. Why should I trust some random small company I've never dealt with to not be malicious or incompetent?) What I really want is a good, up to date software that I can pay for, but is still open source. I think too many people have forgotten that open source doesn't mean that you have to release the code in public for all to see on github et al, it just simply means that you have to provide the source. So unless you are a customer, you don't get access to the source (unless the customer then shares it... this is probably one of the few areas I think that needs more debate in the GPL vs MIT war.) With all of the revelations of the NSA, I think any business that deals with sensitive information in any way has a responsibility to 1) move away from SaaS and cloud computing, and 2) move away from proprietary whenever it is possible to do so without negatively impacting business operations. We need to reclaim control of our data, as users personally and in business, and the only way we reliably do that is with decentralized, locally controlled FOSS.