alt Hacker News> I get that developers want to be compensated for their time.
Depends. If you build software for others then of course you should be paid. But if you build sth for youself, to scratch you own itch, isn't that already compensation? Why try to milk that cow to for such a mini tool that just took a few weekends to build? (The author said that.) If everybody had followed that philosophy then the whole OSS ecosystem wouldn't exist. Time to pay back to the community and open source such a project.
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The Mac way is much better. Users get high quality software for a fair price, and talented indie developers get compensated for their work and skills.
Meanwhile I guess FOSS communists can continue to enjoy working for free programming crucial net infrastructure for companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft.
There is a lot of work post launch in customer support, fixing security issues, keeping code up to date, and fixing bugs.