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Re:Ask HN: Open-source software authors – why do you do it? by iSloth on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:00PM (#31181694)
Interesting take that you believe all software should be open source, any particular reason where this comes from?

I feel like in an ideal world developers are due a fair share of the revenue/profits that their software generates, even if they enjoyed the original works and profit wasn't their intention - However with open source I often see a large organisations making huge profits, with close to zero going back to the authors/maintainers.

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Re:Ask HN: Open-source software authors – why do you do it? by OkayPhysicist on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:28PM (#31183866)
If somebody starts monetizing their (A)GPL'd fork of my code, they're now the maintainers of what will likely become the more widely used fork.

I add functionality I want. If someone else wants functionality I'm not interested in, they can either do it themselves, or pay me.

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