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When they started this project they should've asked themselves if they wanted to be reimbursed for their effort. If so, they should've started a company and sol
by UltraViolence 4y ago
When they started this project they should've asked themselves if they wanted to be reimbursed for their effort. If so, they should've started a company and sold the software commercially, releasing the code as an aside.
Instead they bait users into believing this is a hobby project by some smart engineers who do this in their spare time to produce software that's a boon to all Mankind. Afterwards they start complaining this company or that company is making money off their effort and start making avaricious changes to the license.
I myself have released several open-source projects, but don't intend charging for them. OTOH users can't expect me to add features or functionality (I do guarantee that security errors will be fixed in short order). I'm also working on commercial software, asking myself beforehand if I wanted to release it as free software or make money from it. Considering the effort I decided to do the latter.