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If you expect payment then put that in the license. Yes it's a dick move, but those are the terms the original developer chose.

• nixpulvis 5mo ago
  Alacritty doesn't accept donations.
• ramon156 5mo ago
  This is such an HN take. "If you want money you have to force people into it" What a shithole society is
  • shimman 5mo ago
    Then tech leaders suddenly act shocked when society violently starts rejecting them.
  • anildash 5mo ago
    It's technically legal to take photos of people through their windows, but we don't worry about anybody but big tech creeps actually doing it on a regular basis.
• argc 5mo ago
  Yeah I don't understand why people are acting so hurt by this. If you want to be paid for something, don't make it open source. If you want to force users to keep the source open, make it GPL/AGPL/whatever. If you want to prevent commercial use, use an appropriate license. This company didn't do any wrong from my limited knowledge of this thread. Sure it would be great for them to give back, and they absolutely should, but I don't see why they deserve any hate (unless they hide what they did or engage in otherwise shady practices, but based on the comments I'm not seeing that).