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Business Logic vs. Free Software Idealism

“These days, business and free software co-exist with little
friction.

“Although you still find some members of the free software
community who automatically view business with suspicion, for the
most part the community considers the multibillion dollar open
source industry as a validation of its beliefs. Business and free
software are so closely intertwined that kernel developers Linus
Torvalds and Andrew Morton are employed by the Linux Foundation, a
non-profit consortium of corporations. But in recent months, this
cooperation is showing signs of becoming strained.”


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