The ideals and philosophy of open source is threatened by the 'marriage of convenience' of open source with the commercial world, which makes a strong case for the traditional free software movement. It is, perhaps, taking the adage 'making a case to the commercial world' too far. Eventually, there may such a blend of both the open source movement and the commercial world that we are not able to distinguish between the two. The enemy would have sneaked in unawares and made sport of all ideals and philosophies of the open source movement.
These are all valid concerns that the open source community needs to address. In closing I have a word of advise for the open source movement from my grandmother which I find appropriate - If you don't know where you're going, remember where you're coming from.
Sources
1. Wikipedia Encyclopedia
2. Open Source Initiative
3. The Free Software Foundation
4. The Apache Software Foundation
5. Richard M. Stallman in "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution"
6. John Udell "Open Source Citizenship".
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