Resumen
Open source is most prominently about building software products for no financial compensation; the economic aspects are perhaps the most important to analyze and understand. Companies have sprung up, while not making money on open source products (which would be a violation of at least the spirit of the movement), making money on servicing those products. There is a faint whiff of communism about the concept of working for no financial gain. Open source is certainly not about "from each according to his ability to each according to his need," so that whiff is indeed faint. But the sense of nobility that open source proponents feel, in working for no financial gain, resonates with some of the other basic communist philosophies. The economic future of open source could range anywhere from "the inevitable future of the software field" to "it's only good for operating systems, nothing more" to "it's in all probability a passing fad."