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>>isaacf+(OP)
If someone can make money off something, after achieving global visibility, they will - it's almost an iron law. The only exceptions I can think of are Wikipedia, Archive.org, and Wikileaks.

>>toyg+0e
Also almost every big open-source project? ffmpeg?

OAI is not bad for being for profit, it is bad for the bait and switch. They started off with "Open" and still have it in their name even as they turned into the next Microsoft.

>>throwa+7g
Most F/OSS projects result in commercial exploitation, one way or another. Virtuous exceptions are very very few.

> OAI is not bad for being for profit, it is bad for the bait and switch.

The bait-and-switch examples in F/OSS are legion, typically via license changes and occasionally via non-changes going against the spirit of the community (like Linux sticking to GPLv2). Most are not as blatant as IMDB pulling up the drawbridge, but something like moving to "open core" once popularity is achieved.