Sorry, Not paying too much attention to the authors in the thread. It never ceases to amaze me the endless number of "software developers" wishing to develop a "commercial" product using "free" software.
I suggest that developers *can* develop a "commercial" product using "free" software. The key is *added value*. So part of what you deliver is otherwise available free, but what the developer's customers are paying for is the additional parts provided by the developer that aren't free. Leveraging the free parts just let the developer deliver the other part in a more timely manner due to not having to reinvent the wheel.
For example, any app shipped using SQLite is developing using free software.
On the other hand, if you meant "giving away your own code as a business" then it can still be done. I'm doing this. In my case, I divide my total set of code into 2 parts and give one of them away, while selling the other. The free part is useful by itself, and I can benefit from use-testing of it by the community. The paid part will be better off due to the added testing in the free part that it depends on.
-- Darren Duncan
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