> Software as it should be.
> Free forever
Mostly all popular projects need some form of funding, and setting the expectaction of a free lunch forever for new users is not healthy. Btw, do you remember who used the tagline "It's free and always will be"? It was Facebook.
Which makes me wonder: should we come up with a new name/classification for software that is 'free as in freedom' but not 'free as in beer'?
You think it would be better if we gated access to a valuable technology behind something that excludes people without money to spend?
- Bloating codebase so much that it can't be audited, extended or forked easily
- Tightly controlling the development
- Open shims for opaque blobs
- Hiding documentation and troubleshooting information
Freedom is more about intent than definitions.