'The additional restrictions imposed by PolyForm or the BSL really do go against the Freedom 0 ideal.'
I would include the AGPL here as well.
'Instead, every time a maintainer finds a way to get paid, people show up to criticize and complain.'
Heck, they show up to criticize and complain anyway. People complain about GNOME, and when I mention alternative desktops, they say those alternatives are somehow not “mainstream”. Or they complain about default configurations, and when I say the config can be changed, they respond “that’s not the point”. And so on and so on.
Under Linux you at least have a *choice* of desktops. Under Windows, you're simply stuck with an ugly and inconsistent mix of 30 years of interface paradigms that you can't swap for something else. And I've always loved the ability to tweak things to make it work for me. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/