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I agree. People here always seem to react badly to companies that provide something for free and now want to make a bit of money. It’s weird because they themselves work in tech and have to earn a living to put food on the table. Having no way of making money isn’t sustainable.

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The problem here is that this isn't putting food on the table for the people who actually built the software.

It's a company surprising everyone by pocketing the money from other people's hard, unpaid work.

The license change is only for future versions, though. The work already put in remains open source.

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