“and in return watch your passion get crushed by entitled users who are never satisfied” is absolutely not unique to open source software. Both free but not ope

“and in return watch your passion get crushed by entitled users who are never satisfied” is absolutely not unique to open source software. Both free but not open tools & services and commercial ones, suffer the same fate. To quote H2G2: > To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. The issue is human nature, from two directions: 1. Some people expect the moon on a stick, and will be arseholes if they do not get it. 2. Some people are far too giving, to the detriment of their own sanity, and generally realise they are doing this to themselves when it is too late, beyond the point where just stepping back a little bit is sufficient to help the situation. It isn't a new thing either: I had some software out there decades ago, back when shareware was a thing. The free version did everything but left a small watermark, so people could fully test it before paying or just keep using it for free if they didn't care about the watermark. I gave it up because dealing with people simply wasn't worth it, and it wasn't those that paid who were the issue: the real arseholes were those who hadn't. For instance, some of them took “if you don't like it, or find my need to eat/sleep/study makes my free support response too slow for you, maybe use something else?” as a direct personal attack on their rights & freedoms. Given how much more nasty the net is today compared to the relatively nice & naive times back then I hate to think what project maintainers get now. When I gave it up I first stopped taking payments (but kept supporting those that had already paid), then released it Open Source (GPL IIRC) and a couple of people jumped on and tried to make a thing of it, but those projects quickly faded as those people didn't have time and/or couldn't put up with the people either, after which I declared it public domain and let my online copies of it die when I moved ISP soon after. I got out quick, before it became too stressful, but some end up sinking more and more time into things instead.