In the beginning I was a big fan of the open source ethos. Google stood by "do no evil," Microsoft was the bad guy, open source was this exciting untamed frontier, and I went to school and learned about Tim Berners Lee and Stallman's manifesto. Today, though, everything seems backward, there is this aura of gloom about whether open source has or is facing death, and my life-long distaste for ads has come to a crisis. Surely there is some other way of invigorating Open Source and the Web than advertising or selling user personal data?