
During my vacation I reread the excellen book "Hackers and Painters. Big ideas from the computer age".
The book is so great since it makes explicit hat we take for granted, names that we have forgot. For example from the preface:
"The fact is, hackers [1] are obsessed with free speech. Slashdot, the New York times of hacking, has a whole section about it. I think most Slashdot readers take this for granted. But "Plane & Pilot" doesn't have a section about free speech."
[1] Note that the author uses "hackers" as "hackers" would; those knowledgeable in an technology and curious about investigating how this technology works.
With the great momentum of the latestandgreatest release Drupal 7 we should not forget that Open Source -and hence Drupal- is about three thing:
- Code
- Community
- Freedom (license)
The cheesy slogan "Come for the code, stay for the community" doesn't -IMHO- do justice to the third important aspect of Open Source; freedom! Many proprietary software projects have excellent code and many proprietary software projects have great community that helps new members in fora and documents best practises. But they do not have freedom.

I studied in a small town up north in the Netherlands and one of the stores there I use often as a metaphor about why choosing Drupal -or generic open source- is better than a closed source solution.

One could enter the second floor of the store with an escalator. Then shop all you like and when you wanted to go down with all your bags... you had to use the stairs.
It is an excellent example of what proprietary software is; it is easy to step and but hard to get out. And most selection processes for choosing a new CMS do not take in account that at one day they will be wanting to step out. And it that case they have to climb down the stairs with all their new bags in their hands, migrate all their content towards their new CMS.
It does not matter where you are going to; your car or a new shop. What matters is where you came from; the second floor. The second floor is what defines the exit costs, not the ground floor, the location new shop or your car.
There are many CMS hosted solutions as well that are great products, have a cool community and are easy to get it; "no creditcard needed". Yes you heared it right, your first shot is free.
In Drupal / Open Source, freedom is broader defined. You are free to use or change the code under the GPL, free to help others by documenting under an CC license and free to use the main site d.o within the Terms and Conditions.

The Drupal community ("We, the Drupalistas") have an excellent reputation when it comes down to enforcing the GPLicense. And we should keep this focus to make sure we will never suffer from the Joomladisation. We even make sure that the CC license is enforced when people use our handbook on other sites.
But we have been a bit sloppy when it comes down to the Terms and Conditions of drupal.org itself. Typical, this is something the legal department of most sites about proprietary software start with.
So you can help with the Terms & Conditions by helping out in this issue and define freedom. That is, unless you are reading "Plane & Pilot" ... and this blog. And let the first words be: "We, the Drupalistas..." :-)