[tolmasky]

If OP feels it is there place to insist what the OSI should label as open source, then they open themselves up to the should game.

Also, this is meant more as a “if you do X, expect Y” statement. If you open source, expect high uptake not profit. The same way someone might say “If you’re using a hammer, your project should have nails.” I would be surprised to have someone retort “who are you to dictate whether my project should have nails?!”. Similarly, if someone complained in an Ogre forum that the framework wasn’t helpful in making a spreadsheet app, I might say “if you’re using a physics game engine, you should be writing a game not a utility app”.

You can set whatever goal you want, but as the author of this very article agrees with, open source is not going to be good when one of those goals is maximizing profit. Unless of course, if we change the definition of open source.