Look at commercial open source companies. How different is Red Hat's business model from Microsoft's I'd say it's pretty marginal.
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Open source is the same thing as proprietary code in that it belongs to the author, who can choose how to license it,
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I think people should be able to say critical things about Microsoft, but that should be completely separate from being a neutral body for any and all the players in the industry to be able to make use of your standard.
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