[hueving]

This completely ignores customers without boatloads of cash laying around. I've worked in educational institutions where there is absolutely no budget to do something. However, people that are genuinely interested in accomplishing something will turn to open source.

They have time to contribute back through documentation, bug reports, and even bug fixes. The only thing they don't have is money. That doesn't mean they don't value the project.

[rwallace]

If you're interested in seeing something open sourced and you have time but not money, consider offering to do some of the requisite cleanup work under NDA.