[coliveira]

What is good for developers is bad for the industry. How else would they justify creating frameworks in different languages if all people are doing anyway is writing text to (F)CGI stdout? It is much better for the companies/groups involved to make people believe that there is something wrong with this and that they should really be using a "proper" framework.

[woah]

Who do you think is making money off open source frameworks?

[coliveira]

The whole cottage industry of software engineers, authors, and consultants who implement these solutions.

[pjmlp]

Consultants that wrote those frameworks in first place and offer their services for help, or go to conferences giving talks about them.

[seanp2k2]

Yep, in many cases the frameworks arise from patterns someone solved while working for BigCo, then decided that the pattern they used was cool enough to share with and be useful for others. Open source is hugely thankless and tons of work, but it can be very rewarding in ways you can't buy, including meeting with interesting / awesome people.