Apache going corporate and end the volunteer model?

Why am I not surprised?

Paying for the full-time staff requires fund raising, and the executive director must handle the challenge of retaining the ASF’s independence while raising funds from individuals and companies, Behlendorf said. Currently donations to the ASF are random, he added.

Deja vu anyone? What the proponents of Open Source Software fail to realize is that nothing is really free. OSS developers contribute their time, time which they could otherwise have devoted to earn or spend with their family. And they can devote the time because they are gainfully employed. OSS is hosted on servers, which are to be paid for as well as the bandwidth. And who pays for them? Mostly corporations.

And how are they going to pay for them? By doing business selling software. And yet OSS fanatics want to take the basic means of survival of these companies. Sooner or later this is going to break and corporations will wise up. The initial euphoria will be over.

Wait a minute I can hear you say that they can use the services model.
Software Service is not a big market to sustain most of the current players, specially the small ones. Only the big houses like IBM, Microsoft, Infosys etc. will survive. Is that what you are looking for - market dominated by big players with higher cost of entry for smaller startups?
And services model alone with no option to make money by selling software definitely throttles innovation. All those startups with great ideas will be a thing of the past.

Software development will cease to be fun for many people as there is no reward to be gained from innovation.

And then finally what do you achieve with this socialistic maneuver?
I really question the motive of FSF proponents