Comment by cmrdporcupine

I read it more as:

> Deno people probably just want a paycheck after they spent years seeking glory and money on something that other people used but didn't pay them a cent for.

My take: Opensource-Infrastructure-as-startup-but-also-charity is a thing that is going to die along with ZIRP. I don't know why VCs ever sniffed around things like this in the first place. The younger generation that followed this business model with liberal "take my stuff" licenses and sneered at GPL etc are learning the hard way that making a nice cool thing and getting noticed is not going to earn you a good living. (And other people will make millions off your passionate work.)