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On Tue, 14 May 2024 11:05:14 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> ndrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:


>> Only until they realize that they've made no money from it whatsoever.
>> Whether you want to admit it or not, those programmers who were most
>> insistent about supporting open-source eventually move on to greener
>> pastures, and produce quality code in proprietary form.
> 
> That can happen, of course. A guy's got to eat!
> 
> I've gone in the opposite direction. Now that I'm not tied to a job, I
> have plenty more time to indulge my OCD (obsessive coding disorder).


Yup. After a long career as a whore I'm enjoying myself. Actually I always 
did enjoy what I was doing but ultimately it was oriented toward producing 
a salable product to keep the money rolling in.