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No one is forcing anyone to do anything, and everyone always knew what they were getting themselves in to. It was always a deal where everyone wins. That you don't like that choice for yourself is fine. No need to be so negative, dismissive, and cynical about how other people choose to spend their free time.



It's no different from creating an open source project, profiting from the free work of thousandths and then cash in a la JBoss or Redis.

If he wanted to give back he could have started with John Skeet.


Stack Overflow Inc. was always a commercial company. No one ever pretended anything else.


Now we are talking :-)




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