"They need money." Who doesn't? But it does not immediately follow that a software has to be restrictively licensed. It has to be part of an overall strategy. M

"They need money." Who doesn't? But it does not immediately follow that a software has to be restrictively licensed. It has to be part of an overall strategy. Most Open Source contributions actually come from companies pursuing a money making strategy. In the case of GitHub very successful even! Equating open source to "not for profit" is just a misunderstanding of both business and open source. One of the main reasons for businesses contributing open source is a solution for the problem of the necessity of in-house development and the un-necessity of an unprofitable/risky in-house software marketing effort with all the overhead that entails.