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by evanelias 1681 days ago
Do note, earlier this month I archived the repo linked in [1] as a last resort, directly in response to the repeated behavior of you and your colleagues.

I don't even know where to begin with explaining this to outsiders, but here's a sample: I receive confused support emails from companies and users (always non-paying ones, at that) about Skeefree literally every single week; at no point in our lengthy email discussion last year did you ever disclose that your employer would be basing the entirety of its marketing campaign for its commercial offering around schema management in direct competition with my own bootstrapped products; then more recently in your fork of [1] your coworker is adding functionality that once again directly competes with the functionality in my commercial products.

In brief, repeatedly using my own open source work to compete with me, which in turn is preventing me from ever generating revenue from this work, which is needed for the work to continue.

It seemingly never ends. At this point I'm literally on the verge of throwing all my work in the trash and never touching a database again. I've clearly wasted the last several years of my life and all I get in return is a shout-out on a day-old HN thread, cool cool.