Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding?

You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

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oefrha 2 hours ago | parent [-]

In this case CSS-Tricks got paid $4m first, so probably the wrong entity to be complaining about funding. But maybe the lead editor in question who’s not the creator didn’t see much of that?

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boredpudding 2 hours ago | parent [-]

CSS-Tricks didn't get paid $4m. They got acquired. The previous owner of CSS-Tricks got $4m.

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oefrha 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Got acquired => got paid. CSS-Tricks the entity (up to the point of acquisition) got paid the money. If and how the money was divided between the people involved doesn’t seem be public info.

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geoffgraham an hour ago | parent [-]

It wasn't divided.

	▲	oefrha an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Too bad then.