For-profit open source is a good thing for open source. For-profit open source is a good thing for the developers involved in open source. Everyone here has stock in this company. And if one day there is liquidity, all my guys will make money. And that's a big motivation for a lot of people. The image that open-source developers are necessarily students with ponytails on the communistic fringe of things is a misrepresentation, specifically in the open-source Java camp, where we are all professionals with advanced degrees from very big universities and we could be making very big salaries in the private sector.
I'm very proud of the fact that we normally match but in certain cases exceed what somebody can make and then on top of it we have stock, and I think that motivation is a healthy thing. I'm somewhat capitalistic in that sense. In between the greed of normal capitalism and the communistic fringe, there is a pragmatic middle road that says look, open-source is a category, it's a profession, we do it seriously, it's our life, it's our passion, we're making a good living at it and blah, blah, blah. To me, that's a very healthy message that you hear consistently from the second-generation open-source companies like MySQL and us.
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