It’s a peeve to me that open source is so obfuscated to the layman and the average person. One of the most retarded statements I’ve ever heard was “free as in speech, not as in beer”. It isn’t deep, witty or even clever and it just serves to confuse Joe Average even further that open source in many cases is a business model (blanket statement I know).

I love open source, but to Joe Average it’s often seen as this philanthropic goodness where coders are willing to bend over backwards adding free features and when the bubble is burst seen as a hypocrisy masking “free labor”. We know hardware, bandwidth and valuable developer time don’t appear out of the ether. So again, thank you for a clear, non veiled and kindly explanation of the subject.