[cortesoft]

I agree, you don't owe me anything. You don't have to share your code for free.

My point is that if you want to make money for your code, either get a job writing software or create a business around the software you wrote.

I think open source should be created by people not trying to make money from it. I understand that not everyone feels this way, and I sometimes agree with the arguments. However, my overall feeling is that supporting open source work should come in the form of companies supporting their employees to work on open source work that is valuable for the company employing those people. They contribute to open source not because they are trying to make money from that work, but because they use that software to support their main money making work, and get more value by sharing the work than keeping it fully internal.

[jasonm23]

In particular open source shouldn't be a marketing gimmick.