[jlos]

> every line of code written by a human should have a dollar sign attached to it.

Every line of code that adds value should have some of that value should GO BACK INTO THE PROJECT.

I'm against the idea a successful product should be open source, even when you have full conrol of your data and they only charge for convenience.

Its an assinine philosophy that makes for WORSE products. Your projects would do better with revenue. More time, better marketing, other people to help.

Octave developer gave up after 25 years[0]. Instead of a robust competitor with a full team of people working on it and generational wealth for the value he created, he gave up struggling to pay bills.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603575

[bityard]

I'd argue that after 25 years, he waited FAR too long for his hobby to somehow turn a profit and would probably be in a much better place now if he'd had gotten a real job a couple decades sooner. "1. Write a bunch of code. 2. Wait for money to flow in." is a terrible business model.

It's also the case that most open source projects just simply do not provide the value that their authors think they do. Think of all the paintings, books, and music ever written. Not the ones you've seen, I mean ALL the ones ever created by any human anywhere. Only a small percentage of what is actually produced ends up being good enough for people to talk about and/or pay actual money for. Software is no different. (And is in fact almost certainly much worse.)

I never want to be paid for writing code, that would take all the fun out of it. But I wish you all the best!