[develop7]

> Why shouldn't an engineer be paid?

shouldn't he? EDIT: fixed bad wording. sorry, English is not my native.

> Please explain to me how they could monetize this on par with the effort put into developing this and still have it be open source.

paid closed-source plugins supporting enterprisey protocols, paid support, custom functionality. these are from top of my head, so pretty sure wirefloss devs could think of something as well.