[FunHearing3443]

I keep seeing this comment that companies are making their millions 'off of open source libraries' and it's a catchy phrase but let's be real the big companies that are using faker JS are making an insignificant amount extra by using that library, there are alternatives to mock data, etc. A key feature of MIT style licenses is that you can do whatever the hell you want with it for free, use a more restrictive license if you don't want people making a bunch of money off your code. I feel bad for this maintainer but a good takeaway is probably to not do a bunch of work for free unless you see a path to income down the road from it.

[watwut]

It is actively anti open source argument. It makes limited sense in subculture where contributing to open source is expected, but that subculture is absurdly small and answer to it is "this absolutely should not be mandatory".

In any other context, it is argument against open source existing.