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> maybe you should question why you're monetizing in the first place. I assume that the author happens to enjoy food and shelter, how strange of them.
by village-idiot 8y ago
> maybe you should question why you're monetizing in the first place.
I assume that the author happens to enjoy food and shelter, how strange of them.
- throwaway4799 8y agoAre you implying that the author is so much reliant on this specific business model that they would likely end up homeless and starving to death if they were deprived of it?
- village-idiot 8y agoDon’t be silly, no. But the chance that they would quit this job and go work on open source code for a living is about 0%. Would you rather they go make proprietary code for a megacorp instead? Nobody seems to single out Google engineers for abuse when it comes to FOSS vs proprietary, it’s always the little guys who get all the abuse.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoHe did not get abuse. He got one or two responses two years ago that said that they'd prefer this to be FOSS, I'd prefer Google's tools to be FOSS too.
- village-idiot 8y agoContext. I’m talking about GP.