My graduate research focused on common computer security misconceptions — one of the biggest being that open source is inherently insecure. The reality is the opposite. The algorithms and systems we trust most are the ones that have been open to public scrutiny. AES was selected through an open competition where every candidate was published for the world to attack. TLS, SHA-256, RSA — none of these are secret.

Their security comes from transparency and years of public audit, not obscurity. The same principle applies to software. I see the legal argument for wanting a vendor to sue, and I've thought about something like Canonical's model for Ubuntu — offering paid support around a free product. But I don't have years of production use behind this yet. We all start somewhere. So for now, this stays open and free for everyone to use, and for me and others to maintain.