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The comment wasn't intended to be diminutive. There happen to be many shameless people looking to make a quick buck, but few of those people would pay if you d
by sheetjs 9y ago
The comment wasn't intended to be diminutive. There happen to be many shameless people looking to make a quick buck, but few of those people would pay if you didn't open source in the first place (or if you offered them a chance to purchase a commercial license). Even with your coworker, the only reason he received money was because the offender made a lot more from it.
- nitrogen 9y agoIt's probably a good thing that people maintain a disdain for freeloading, though. It's important for at least some of the gains from a new creation to go to the creator, otherwise the market for whatever product will stagnate because the people with resources are not the people with ideas.
- quickthrower2 9y agoFreeloading but also copyright violation. No different to selling a cracked Windows installer.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoOT, but are you still doing high frequency trading? How'd it turn out?
- sheetjs 9y agoWe stopped after our second support contract. Long story short: quite a few companies wanted additional features and we ultimately had to pick one thing to pursue.