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[โ€“] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am pretty much Tharg and Thargs don't make a lot of money because we have better things to do.

[โ€“] Venator@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 week ago

Sometimes Thargs make money if the better thing they decide to do happens to be commercially valuable and they don't happen to decide to make it open source: e.g. Gabe Newell