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by AnimalMuppet 1920 days ago
Start by changing your thinking. Are you really "extorting" millions of dollars out of companies that need software? Or are you supplying to them the software that they willingly pay millions for, because the software is actually worth that (at least to them)?

The way you frame that indicates... something. Maybe that you've gotten cynical and bitter about the whole for-profit economy. You might think about why that is, and what it says about what you're looking for. (It's really easy to make a change in a mid-life crisis, and find out that the change only fixed the surface problem, but didn't really get you what you were after.)