Apparently you've avoided one of the greatest joys of open source... forks. I worked for 7 years on an open source project with hundreds of people subscribed. My most trusted maintainer started a drumbeat about project goals that ended up causing two forks, decimating the user community, and destroying a lot of potential. Even more interesting is that all I ever seem to get, if I get mentioned at all, is negative pre…
> As for the worry about combining open source and money... forget it. I dunno... I've done well. Offices in Canada and France, 6 people working for me (not all full-time). The key for me is to sell services around the software, and also sell support. If it takes people 10 days to figure out how to do something, a decent percentage of them will pay you to do it for them. But it has to be the right market, too. Sellin…
Hence why the year of desktop FOSS will never happen, given how consumers related to packaged software.
Also the profits on iOS vs Android stores is a good example of it.