Re:Luck to them (Score 1)

Actually, the venture capitalists are making a shrewd bet. Most mature companies in the software industry generate the bulk of their revenue by charging existing customers for maintenance - and not in sales of licenses. In fact, that trend is becoming more pronounced. The VC types simply believe that software companies can be viable if they charge nothing for licenses, and generate all revenues from support. Given the megabucks that are generated by these companies, that isn't an unreasonable bet if any open source project can reach a critical level of installed base.