My remark wasn't meant to imply that revenue is inherently bad. Simply that undue focus on revenue often creates sub-par products. There are plenty of small software shops out there which need revenue to exist, but create things for people instead of for profit.

My gripe is that apparently checking ad revenue every other week is of greater importance than even checking that the software works. Improving people's lives by providing something useful is clearly further down the importance list.

And some don't even need revenue - a la Linux / Rails / many open source projects.