[JGailor]

> I highly suspect very few will ahve to tear it out. It'll cost more money to replace than it would to pay license fees for many companies. Developer time costs money.

That is the strategy companies are using to monetize these sort of projects. Give it away for free and then charge when a company has to make the choice of spending money to get rid of it and to replace it or to just pay for it. The lesson to take away is that any open source supported by a company will potentially become something that will have to be licensed commercially, so if anything will create an incentive to not use open source.

[the_af]

Indeed, and that's predatory behavior and it hurts the open source community because of the mistrust it sows.

Bad news. And people here are asking where's the bait and switch? Amazing.