Comment by lolinder

Fully agreed. This attitude—that someone making money off my freely published work is somehow hurting me—was, I think, best captured by the inimitable Matt Mullenweg in his response to DHH [0]:

> DHH claims to be an expert on open source, but his toxic personality and inability to scale teams means that although he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others.

There's a certain type of open source maintainer that is in it for the money—in it to "capture value"—and those people see it as a personal affront if someone else "captures" more "value" from their project than they do. This is not a healthy way to approach life, and it's not an effective way to approach free software. It's especially not an effective way to approach Open Source, which rolls back the GPL's copyleft provisions and makes it very explicit that you're doing this work for the collective benefit of everyone, including people who want to make proprietary stuff on top.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20241014235025/https://ma.tt/2024...