How my open source hobby project became my job: 10 years of OptaPlanner
I can't help thinking this isn't the optimal result for the author.  After 10 years of working on his thing, it has essentially been taken over by this company who sells it in their name for a profit, while keeping the author working on it for a salary.  They seem to be getting a really good deal.<p>Imagine if, instead of building the "Leading Open Source Constraint Satisfaction Solver", this guy had instead spent the same time building the "Leading Constraint Satisfaction Solver", differing in that it had a price tag associated.<p>For as smart a guy as he seems to be, I can only imagine he'd be doing a lot better today.<p>I read this as a sad commentary on how the Open Source philosophy, that seems to be so drummed in to kids at University, leads them to think that the best course in life is to give away their best work for free.