[hackbinary]

While I can understand where he is coming from, his stuff is itself largely built on the free licensed software of others.

In the end, this seems to me like pulling up the ladder after himself, and ultimately quite selfish.

[arekkas]

How is making a living from your work selfish?

[shadowmint]

It depends, is that work based on the free work of others?

Taking advantage of the community and not contributing back for others to benefit (as you have, for free) seems selfish to me.

Maybe if he proportionately (based on LOC or something) donated any income to his upstream dependencies?

...but I suspect that wouldn’t leave much.

[Tempest1981]

I saw it as him encouraging the community to join him, on behalf of all starving developers who are giving big businesses a free ride.