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[Andrew Theurer]

> Why now would anyone with enough talent want to contibute to any possible
> **money makers**, when  they can devote the work to their own end, and cash
> in on it.
> Pete made money an issue.

People do this all the time.  Linux, Samba, FreeBSD.  The money makers do 
have some restictions, like making available original source code, but they 
are free to make as much money as customers are willing to give them.   They 
do not have to give their contributions back in many cases (linking to a LGPL 
library, writing a kernel module, etc).  But the developers still  work at 
it, despite people making money off it.  

If you are worried that someone might make money off an idea/contribution you 
made public, then you shouldn't make your ideas/contributions public.  If I 
ever contribute something original to these efforts (I currently don't have 
that talent), I assume that those ideas are in the public domain, where 
anybody can do whatever the hell they want with it.  It's too much trouble to 
worry how someone might make money over my publicly disclosed idea.  So, in 
short, why care about how someone is making money of your idea?  Does it 
really effect you?  Were your intentions to make money on this eventually?   
I think you need to be realistic here.  

-Andrew
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