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I hate to be toxic, but was he conscripted or somehow enslaved to do the work on it?

I get it about the hate he received and I wonder why some corp didn’t swoop in and monetize it…

TBH it feels a lot to me like what happens to people who get famous for a time, then look around and wonder why they’re poor. He has every opportunity to fork his own work, plug in licensing and offer paid support which EVERY big company would buy in a New York minute, but can’t seem to figure it out. It’s a business model used by huge OSS companies like Atlassian and RedHat.

I wonder - it seems his work was so fundamental it was hidden from most web developers by being included as a dependency in other higher level projects.

Depressing read.

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