[jbotdev]

Just like “this is the year of the Linux Desktop”?

I’d love to have an open non-profit alternative to Google’s productivity suite, but realistically it’s very hard to host those things outside a traditional for profit business. Building the open source software is the easy part, and has been done already. The hard parts are things like email deliverability, and getting people to pay for what’s typically a free ad-supported service.

[Podgajski]

linux is not nonprofit, it’s no profit. There’s a difference. I would gladly pay for a linux operating system. Problem has been that they’re giving away a great product for free. Open source developers could get paid under a nonprofit model, not under the current no profit model.