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It's no different from creating an open source project, profiting from the free work of thousandths and then cash in a la JBoss or Redis.

If he wanted to give back he could have started with John Skeet.




Stack Overflow Inc. was always a commercial company. No one ever pretended anything else.


Now we are talking :-)




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