The top 100 companies who depend on this software should be slinging millions at this guy. That's my simple ethics take on it. The value created is that large

The top 100 companies who depend on this software should be slinging millions at this guy. That's my simple ethics take on it. The value created is that large at least. The amount of money he saved them in dev time. "Then he should license it as xyzsksudhsj, he should have released it as a commercial product, he should have put on a tie and pulled himself up by his bootstraps" no. Highly unlikely the tool would have become as useful as it as, or as widespread and thus a source of truth (and a guiding force in the world of web standards). That's victim blaming. It's time for the top 100 companies to pony up, straight up. They don't "have to..." until the outrage gets high enough, until the internal pressure gets large enough. So we should all do our part and start sending emails up the chain, start the conversation, start being a little annoying.