What did you buy the last time you paid for software? I bought a license for FontCreator, from High-Logic. There is a long list of softwares I would be willing to pay <i>some</i> amount of money for, as a lone developer, but I most certainly can't afford the enterprise deals.<p>An argument can be made that somebody betrays trust when they say BSD and a few years later it turns into something else.<p>Conversely, there is this idea of "making a market": putting facilities in place for the exchange of goods, <i>and</i> signaling that there is a demand for those goods. The last part is important. If we as software developers and hackers use every opportunity we have to signal that the highest amount we are willing to pay is $0.00, then many businesses will close shop, move to Enterprise Uptown, or both. Or they will use bait-and-switch, a-la Redis, which is definitely scummy.
The page 404s for me currently and it does not seem to be archived by the wayback machine either:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://redis.io/news/121" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://redis.io...</a>