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Asking this in a friendly manner, but don't you feel bad that something you created was taken essentially for free by a corporation and monetized? Money isn't everything, but I would think it fair for the creator to receive their share

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Mostly not.

But sometimes yes, company created billions [0] and I haven't seen a cent :-)

[0] Yes, also JIRA

It's quite the resume bullet point I assume!

Worked as a manager/CTO for decades, it's not that important.

Now I work as a CTO coach for some years now - which I enjoy a lot - and it has even less impact there.

But perhaps I'll add "From the guy who put {macro} into Atlassian® Confluence®" :-) Thanks!

it is an impressive feat, sorry if it came across as negative! hopefully they treat you to dinners at least

Every open source developer has been asking this question for the better part of three decades. Possibly four.

I think there's still a difference of using small libraries which contribute to a single or couple functions here and there, versus taking an entire open source product and wrapping a commercial structure on top of it. Could be hypocrisy on my behalf though

If you don't want that to happen, then don't release your software as free software. Use a CC-NC license or something similar.

I'm not nearly talented enough to build something open source someone else would want to commercialize

Those small libraries of “Hey, I figured this out so you don’t have to” aren’t asking for $10,000/mo. in support. The issue is open source software projects that become monetized by another company as a product for profit without following the Red Hat model of supporting the project.

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