This is a terrible argument. Marak didn't have to purposely break anyone's projects either. If he wanted to end it, he should have just sent a goodbye message stating the end of his involvement and walked away. This is the normal thing to do. If he wanted to be paid, he should have either picked the appropriate license at the beginning, or just changed it for future versions. The latter has also been done before with SugarCRM being one example. They are still around with paying customers. Something as free for all as the MIT license sends the wrong message.

This has been posted before, but Marak seems to be mentally unwell right now, which helps explain but doesn't condone his behavior.

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