It may not be that they are commercially oriented, but that they have adopted startup-like mentalities regarding &quot;growth&quot;.<p>This in turn leads to all kinds of changes to appear more fashionable and appealing to the masses.<p>Frankly i think thats a fools errand. Seems to me that when it comes to fashionable in relation to computing, we are dealing with a Giffen Good (or perhaps even a Veblen Good). Meaning that to be a fashionable computing platform, it has to be an expensive one.<p>But in the process you end up with something similar to New Public Management for FOSS projects. Trying to evangelize and drum up attention as if they were pitching a for profit product, much like NPM tries to put market forces into public services.