adam beecher wrote:
This needs to be stated explicitly: My intention is to help found an FS org.
This is fine, and since I release some of my code under the GPL, if there was anything I could do to help I would. However I'm far from a free software purist, I respect the decision of some software developers to monetise their skills without having to balance their future on something as unreliable as "support" (or worse, options). If the source code of their applications is available /to me/, I consider it free and open to an appreciable degree. Ireland's size is another factor, but I have to defer to Jimmy O'Regan for putting it much better than I could:
I'd just like to say at this point that I veer more towards the Free Software position than the Open Source position; the point I intended to make (I tend to ramble, so I probably didn't make it :) was that there are a lot of people (such as you) who can help promote the goals Ciaran mentioned who might be put off by the Free Software philosophy (or some subset).