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Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with pay for products. What I do have a problem with is the weesly tactics they used. Put out a free product, claim it will always be free, wait till thousands of people are using it each with thousands of users in their DB and then turn around and say, " well now that we know it would be a huge pain for you to switch products, guess what, we are going to charge you". Knowing full well they've got atleast half their users by the balls and they're gonna have to pay because they simply can't migrate their large user DB to another system. That's slimy if you ask me.
This is why a company should never own an opensource product. Samething happened with Redhat linux, and I'll almost gaurantee Mambo will do the same since it's owned by a company who already sells a version of it. They wait till their "opensourced" project has reached a point that it's now a viable product agianst other pay-for CMS systems and shutdown the opensource code for further releases.
