Misunderstanding Open Source

I don’t think Troy Brumley of Cincom (another commercial vendor of Smalltalk) understands open source very well. Writing of the end of Dolphin Smalltalk, he writes:
The discussion made me think again about price points. It’s difficult to charge a sustainable price for software when so much stuff is free or open sourced. That’s a pity. [...]

More About Open Source vis-à-vis Dolphin Smalltalk

I’ve come across another interview with Linus Torvalds and the one thing that sticks out, in light of what I wrote yesterday about Dolphin Smalltalk’s demise, is how totally opposite people can be about why they open or close their code.
Consider this:
I was hoping to get people to tell me what they thought needed improvement [...]