This reminds me of a lot of DHH's keynote about open source from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwWbFpkltg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwWbFpk

This reminds me of a lot of DHH's keynote about open source from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwWbFpkltg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwWbFpkltg Even if you're not a Rails developer it's worth watching. From what I remember from the talk he is totally fine with and doesn't hold any grudges against Twitter, GitHub or Shopify making hundreds of millions of dollars off Ruby on Rails while getting zero compensation in return. Mainly because he open sourced Rails with no monetary / fame expectations and then worried about generating income from services around his open source project. I don't know Marak's history but I do know developing a good faker library definitely isn't trivial, so I'm sure his work is very much appreciated by the folks who use it but I think if you're doing open source work for money and other non-pure byproducts you're only setting your self up for disappointment.