SpringSource pulls a bait and switch with Spring Framework

Spring Framework may be one of the most widely adopted libraries in the Java world.

It came to be so widely adopted because of its open source license and consistent quality.

Its authors decided to monetize the wide adoption, and formed SpringSource to sell support.

Now they are pulling a bait and switch to maximize their short term profit, by selling licenses on top of support, because license business scales better than support business.

SpringSource are significantly altering the factors which led to Spring Framework's popularity, by making the previously simple process required to use Spring Framework so complicated, with marked unknowns, that the SMB/consultant sector, which comprises 90% of its user and technology decisionmaker base, has to in effect make a whole new purchase decision in a product landscape which has the technology giant Google offering Guice, and EJB 3.1 getting nearly on par on technological usability.

The question is: is Spring Framework worth it anymore to anyone, if its user base shrinks to 10%, and is unlikely to raise back to preceding levels?

Edit: apparently the new pricing starts from $20,000 for a small team.