[trashburger]

Absolutely not, and there are two reasons:

1) Someone paying for my product means that they now expect support and maintenance for me. When I release my software under a Free license, I release it "AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED", which I think is the best part of Free Software. You are responsible for using my software.

2) As soon as you start accepting compensation for your project, you now have to deal with a whole bunch of legal overhead, taxes etc.

I think the main issue is people releasing their software under a license which they don't necessarily agree with beyond a certain point.

[navane]

I'm pretty sure you can sell software and still take zero responsibility in the software being correct.

[carlosjobim]

> they now expect support and maintenance for me.

In worst case you give a refund if the software doesn't work as promised for the customer. You're not forced to fix bugs or problems that are beyond your capability or interest.

Taxes are not a big deal and can be ignored until you start making decent money on the business and can afford your accountant. The taxman understands and is not going after people in the starting phase.

[meiraleal]

> I think the main issue is people releasing their software under a license which they don't necessarily agree with beyond a certain point.

It's a ego thing then. Anybody doing free/open source software should make peace with the fact that their work is given for free. Imagine Linus Torvalds complaining that people are selling his work.