On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Allen wrote:

> How can it be open source and paid for?


        Open source software is free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in 
beer. There are many open source projects that cost money to use; the benefit 
of open source is that you can see what you're running, you can fix things that 
are broken, and you can customize behaviors to your needs.


-- Ed Leafe




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