I started Sentry before Disqus, and even if it wasnt disclosed as prior invention (PIIA might be something youve seen), I had the support of the founders to con

I started Sentry before Disqus, and even if it wasnt disclosed as prior invention (PIIA might be something youve seen), I had the support of the founders to continue to develop on open source. Its also impotant to note that all the code is governed by the LICENSE, which was BSD-3. I think you've just gotta find companies that recognize the value things create. I will say I drew a line personally: I only ever worked on projects that helped Disqus during working hours, so if I wanted to just build fun unrelated features (even on Sentry) I did it in my evenings/weekends. Sometimes that did mean contributing to Sentry, but it was to fix things that specifically helped Disqus (such as overloading the production services when we had an outage).