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This comment is really lacking some nuance: - of course, building a successful commercial software (company) is a lot of work - but if you manage to create a

This comment is really lacking some nuance: - of course, building a successful commercial software (company) is a lot of work - but if you manage to create a commercial software that reach even a fraction of libjpeg-turbo's success, you'd get very rich, with lots and lots of zeros on your bank account, and a family free from material problems for decades to come. - nobody, including the author, claim that he should be rich. We just think that it's a pity that he's not able to make decent money, despite creating tremendous value to very profitable companies (and making an much easier job to thousands of developers far less skilled than he is, while still making multiple times his paycheck).

fluoridation 3y ago
>but if you manage to create a commercial software that reach even a fraction of libjpeg-turbo's success, you'd get very rich, with lots and lots of zeros on your bank account, and a family free from material problems for decades to come. This is a non sequitur, given that libjpeg-turbo has reached libjpeg-turbo's success and its author is not several times very rich. It is unfortunately very possible to create a product that's very popular and that takes a lot of effort to work on, but which most people are not willing to spend any money on.
- littlestymaar 3y ago
  > This is a non sequitur, given that libjpeg-turbo has reached libjpeg-turbo's success and its author is not several times very rich. I'm afraid you must suffer from some reading impairment, as I explicitly said this (now with the emphasis added): > if you manage to create a commercial software that reach even a fraction of libjpeg-turbo's success.