Nice work. It sounds like you’re young, so you should know that basically no one makes a living from sponsor-based open source software, and even industry luminaries make chump change from their work.
Notably, and I won’t name who, there have been recent blog articles posted here written by some industry leaders basically e-begging and it’s just the weirdest, saddest thing.
As someone else who works in this space and has released internationally used free and open source software, if you want to make money off of your work, sell it, and ignore the class of developers who get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free.
You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN. Just a heads up from one experienced guy to a younger developer.
Probably because they could easily have given the same advice without needing to call people on hn that encourage and support open source software "low-class".
Probably for calling open source developers sad low-class beggars. Also probably for the presumption that OP should be trying to hustle an income from a fork of an open source project that no one would be willing to pay for anyway, because there's no market for 2d renderers. They're all already free.
I personally think this is better.
Notably, and I won’t name who, there have been recent blog articles posted here written by some industry leaders basically e-begging and it’s just the weirdest, saddest thing.
As someone else who works in this space and has released internationally used free and open source software, if you want to make money off of your work, sell it, and ignore the class of developers who get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free.
You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN. Just a heads up from one experienced guy to a younger developer.
Probably for calling open source developers sad low-class beggars. Also probably for the presumption that OP should be trying to hustle an income from a fork of an open source project that no one would be willing to pay for anyway, because there's no market for 2d renderers. They're all already free.
It isn't only crass, it's stupid and crass.