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"Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s ( and other smaller sized companies ) with my free work. There isn't much else to say," the developer previously wrote.

"Take this as an opportunity to send me a six figure yearly contract or fork the project and have someone else work on it.

> "Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s ( and other smaller sized companies ) with my free work. There isn't much else to say," the developer previously wrote. > >"Take this as an opportunity to send me a six figure yearly contract or fork the project and have someone else work on it.

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The first step in awakening to the predatory religion of 'open source software'. It's not slavery if you elect to work for other people for free, but it's still immoral.

Companies know there's enough naive idiots out there to do a sizable amount of their work for them. It's the 2010's version of the 2000's unpaid internships. I'm glad this guy is able to dig himself out of this trap.