The problem is not with open source as a concept and as a craft. The problem is that people confuse it with making money. If you are doing open source with th

The problem is not with open source as a concept and as a craft. The problem is that people confuse it with making money. If you are doing open source with the expectation that you will get rich, then you are in the realm of cognitive dissonance. There is nothing inherently wrong about donig it that way, but its not in the spirit of open source. A lot of "open source startup bros" just think open source is leet cool, its trendy. But the idea that their hard work will go unpaid is an affront for them. Maybe you have a codebase and if it starts geting tractino you have a while Where the community invests time and expands what the codebase can do. Then there comes a juncture a semi open source "core" and then premium (often partially created by the community) becomes closed source and epxensive. Yet the same people are happy to use open source platforms, databases, operating sytems, etc etc ot create their new project yet they never seem to feel the need to pass the money down the chain of programmers who hve created everythig they use.