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I'm giving up — on open source - Blog
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this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
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All points in the article are completely valid. We live in a crappy world where all anyone wants to do is take.
SOME of the points in this rant are valid. The conclusions are wrong because the context is wrong.
This guy wanted to get paid for his free software. Sure it's not free -- any more than the miniatures my warhammer-lovin' cousin painstakingly paints are 'free' for his time. Wanting to get magic money compensation, though, is wrong in both cases.
The public issue on github where people are slagging him for maybe expiring some old software; that's just stupid drama. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. NO. ONE. CARES. They're just pissed at the apparent rug-pull and "buy a license" isn't the best way to be not-a-dick about it.