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I've used Joomla for the past few years and have found it simply the best tool for getting what I want onto the web. What makes it so good is the wide raging extensions. But, as I'm sure most users will agree, extensions that are poorly supported and full of bugs make for frustrating development. Of course there  is no  "right of reply" when using these extensions as they are published simply due to the developers good will and rightly the support and level of bug fixing comes second to the need to put food on the table.
This is fine if we want Joomla to stay as a CMS for use by the hobbyist and tech savvy ends of the user spectrum, but the middle ground of developers who wish to use Joomla for commercial sites will look elsewhere for a tool that allows for well documented and supported extensions that don't require hours of work and reading to fix bugs or tweak features.
The only way we are going to get such extensions is to allow developers to dedicate more time to them, and this of course means them having the rightly to charge for their work.
The community may well be able to support a few popular extensions such as CB but the niche ones will never get the support that they require to be developed properly, and hence the wide range of add-ons that make Joomla the world leader it is, will wither and so I fear will the user base of Joomla.
A plea to the core team: Find a way to allow third party paid extensions; we like them!

GPL does not prevent them from charging or commercializing their extensions. This blog post may be helpful to you: http://www.joomla.org/component/option, ... 105/p,370/

Thanks for that link- it certainly makes things clearer and allays the fears that I outlined above.