“I received an e-mail from Simon Romanski, director of
information systems at Fulfillment America, asking about the nature
of open source software and its intersection with commercialism.
Open source software (the code) is free and open. You can pay for
support, packaging, reliable distributions. If in what’s called
commercial open source, the code isn’t all free, then should it be
marketed as open source…?”
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