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Most OSS projects are commercial
OOo (Sun), Fedora (Red Hat), Open SuSE (Novell), MySQL (MySQL), PGP (PGP Corp.),....

What's your point? They do have to make money, you know. You are starting to pull the No_Ax argument of, "Why should I program for free?"

They don't. They expect to be paid and hence the commercial side of the business.
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