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Positive income is profit. Negative income is loss.

I'd rather profit. :p

The Net Income you report on your Schedule C is your businesses profit whether you like to think of it that way or not. The opposite of this would be a loss where your business generates negative Net Income.

Huh? “Profit” is not ambiguous, even in your business. It’s a value you calculate each year on Schedule C.

Like what’s your point really

Bikeshedding the meaning of profit.

Perhaps you think it is trivial. I don't. Open source has the potential to bring lots of benefits to society, but if coupled to a particular conception of what "profit" is and the way in which companies "doing" open source should relate to it, I believe that a lot of those benefits will be squandered.