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I think there are different kinds of commercial users, some of us just want to use it for internal projects so there is no conflict.

In terms of distracting from the core mission of haskell.org, I can understand the viewpoint. Personally I do not mind who provides such a service so long as it plays well with hackage. I wanted to start the discussion wrt haskell.org so it can go forward in a neutral way.

Alan