[surgical_fire]

> What harm is there to you if someone uses some of your code to build a business, as compared to not doing so? How are you worse off?

This someone might be someone I dislike. It would cause me some mild annoyance that they benefited from my effort.

[brookst]

It’s not healthy to let hypothetical spite guide your participation in civilization.

[surgical_fire]

It's also not healthy to sip on whiskey or smoke some tobacco, but I do both on occasion.

Spite is also pretty pleasurable.