[waihtis]

Asking this in a friendly manner, but don't you feel bad that something you created was taken essentially for free by a corporation and monetized? Money isn't everything, but I would think it fair for the creator to receive their share

[KingOfCoders]

Mostly not.

But sometimes yes, company created billions [0] and I haven't seen a cent :-)

[0] Yes, also JIRA

[toomuchtodo]

It's quite the resume bullet point I assume!

[KingOfCoders]

Worked as a manager/CTO for decades, it's not that important.

Now I work as a CTO coach for some years now - which I enjoy a lot - and it has even less impact there.

But perhaps I'll add "From the guy who put {macro} into Atlassian® Confluence®" :-) Thanks!

[waihtis]

it is an impressive feat, sorry if it came across as negative! hopefully they treat you to dinners at least

[gabereiser]

Every open source developer has been asking this question for the better part of three decades. Possibly four.

[waihtis]

I think there's still a difference of using small libraries which contribute to a single or couple functions here and there, versus taking an entire open source product and wrapping a commercial structure on top of it. Could be hypocrisy on my behalf though

[hfkwer]

If you don't want that to happen, then don't release your software as free software. Use a CC-NC license or something similar.

[waihtis]

I'm not nearly talented enough to build something open source someone else would want to commercialize

[gabereiser]

Those small libraries of “Hey, I figured this out so you don’t have to” aren’t asking for $10,000/mo. in support. The issue is open source software projects that become monetized by another company as a product for profit without following the Red Hat model of supporting the project.