> In other words, there a great many developers who are likely to be open to someone else buying up their creation along with their user base.
As a maintainer of a relatively popular extension (hoverzoom+, ~360K users) I get business offers all the time [1]. A few of them are pretty good, actually. I'm not surprised that some developers eventually give up and take one of those offers. But I am surprised that there aren't more of these "under new management" extensions, or maybe we just don't know about them.
As a maintainer of a relatively popular extension (hoverzoom+, ~360K users) I get business offers all the time [1]. A few of them are pretty good, actually. I'm not surprised that some developers eventually give up and take one of those offers. But I am surprised that there aren't more of these "under new management" extensions, or maybe we just don't know about them.
[1] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670