>At a miniscule fraction of the value they created.
Two things here:
1) In a sane business climate, you will never extract more than some fraction of the value you create. If you receive as much value as you create, then there is no purpose in anyone using whatever you've built, because they gain nothing from it.
2) If your goal is extracting as much of the created value for yourself as possible, open source software licenses are not designed in such a manner as to do so.
If you want to get the same benefits of proprietary software, write proprietary software. There's nothing wrong with doing so.
Two things here:
1) In a sane business climate, you will never extract more than some fraction of the value you create. If you receive as much value as you create, then there is no purpose in anyone using whatever you've built, because they gain nothing from it.
2) If your goal is extracting as much of the created value for yourself as possible, open source software licenses are not designed in such a manner as to do so.
If you want to get the same benefits of proprietary software, write proprietary software. There's nothing wrong with doing so.