I’m appalled by this, if I’m being honest. > Working on an open source project is still work, and if you're doing a good job, you should be rewarded for it. I

I’m appalled by this, if I’m being honest. > Working on an open source project is still work, and if you're doing a good job, you should be rewarded for it. I also always believed that if you ever started a project that is valuable for companies, they would support you in return My friend, then you started in the wrong place. At the risk of getting into a mire over free vs open source software, I think you have fundamentally misunderstood the principles of FOSS, or are picking and choosing parts of it, and ultimately spent a significant amount of time and effort on an inevitable collision course. FOSS tries to be a rising tide that lifts all boats, where by participating in it we all communally benefit from stability, security, lower costs, accessibility, transparency, and so on. Your reward for participating in it is in its continuation and proliferation, where others are doing the same in FOSS software that benefits you by providing non-proprietary solutions. This is real reward[0], apparent to anyone who’s lived through the hell of proprietary software especially before and leading up to FOSS’s golden age. Neither side of a license is entitled to anything beyond what it grants, and expecting more is frankly naive. Yes, it’s beyond enraging that there are rude, entitled, and lazy end users out there. Welcome to the Internet, just ignore the Issues section like every other repo /s. Yes, it fucking sucks that companies are making trillions off the largely unpaid work by a relatively small group of routinely abused people. To be absolutely clear, I fully believe you should stop investing time and resources on a project when it’s no longer worth it. I do not believe you owe anyone anything just because you published a project, and you have the contract to prove it. However, I take issue with the “leaving and taking my toys with me”, self immolating previously published software, gating previously open code (I hope you don’t have any contributors you are taking labor from), and throwing your voice behind a dangerous backslide into proprietary hell. If you find yourself fragile enough you’re unable to simply block noisy assholes and move on, then just archive the repo and work on something else. It’s your project and you can ultimately do what you want, but I’m not gonna applaud you for devolution. 0 - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-tri...