[joshwayne]

What bugs me is the developer hadn't touched Mou in a year and was trying to sell it at one point [1]. Then some developers decided to make an open source version of it called MacDown [2], which rubbed the Mou developer the wrong way, and he and his friends were bashing it as a blatant rip off of Mou [3]. The renewed interest in the project only seemed to come about when MacDown started getting traction.

I've used Mou and I think it's pretty stable. I don't see a problem with simply charging for it now. It seems unnecessary to raise money and bring on a whole team.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948079

[2]: https://github.com/uranusjr/macdown

[3]: https://twitter.com/remaerd/status/484914820408279040

[arandomguy]

The developers are lazy about maintaining this software. It's not called 'stable'. I don't expect they would do better after this campaign. If you don't do it right, there is no reason to criticize others for doing it better.

[chenluois]

It should be 'developer', not 'developers'. It was my personal project, you could say me lazy.

That's exactly why I'm founding a team, trying to do it better.