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When startup founders disagree about giving back to open source

My co-founder and I built our company using open source tools but now we're successful and they want to keep taking from the community without contributing back while I think we owe these projects funding or developer time.

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Two people must decide whether their success creates obligations to the systems that enabled it.

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