This is happening because we created a culture that glorify an ideal, Free Software, over practical concerns. OSS is communism applied to software: it doesn't

This is happening because we created a culture that glorify an ideal, Free Software, over practical concerns. OSS is communism applied to software: it doesn't make sense and it doesn't work. After a few generations of idealistic people who sacrificed themselves and worked for free to give us foundations, most of OSS nowadays is just: - Advertising to let engineers know that company X is cool and you should go work for them - Ways to keep your staff motivated (who doesn't want to become a OSS rockstar?) - Advertising to sell an actual business I'd rather live in a world where companies are building and maintaining software and reselling it to other companies. Unfortunately we made it sound uncool, somehow. Pay your invoice, get your token and npm install @user-agent-experts/ua-parser I'm not necessarily against open source and I certainly benefit and contribute to it; OSS also has the benefit that more people can spot bugs and end users can fix your shit when it's broken. Still, I would never maintain something that allows companies to use it for free. It doesn't make any sense, no matter how much code the companies are publishing.