It's true, and its bleedingly obvious! The end result of exploitation is that the used will make the only choice they have available - stop making themselves available for exploitation.

Code will get 'buggy' and insecure (gasp, horror, no! this wouldn't be done deliberately would it? watch!) and the right stuff reappear in a commercial offering to return the favour.

I wonder whether the time has come to look at a Creative Commons-type hierarchy to the GPL - something like free unless commercial use. That would leave the problem of fund splitting between coders but that's at least a different kind of exploitation which I suspect will be of a lesser scale though no less prolific (we are dealing with human nature here!).

The CEO at Fonality (one of the companies listed) wrote, "Fonality is *not* an Open Source vendor. Rather, we utilize Open Source technology inside of our company." Reference: [visit link]