That's small businesses for you. Not all of them are like that by any means but enough are to be difficult to consider losing, income wise, with no guarantee I could replace them. As I said, if they had the source code, I think they'd try and exploit some third world coder to both maintain and extend the product and say goodbye to me

> I think they'd try and exploit some third world coder to both maintain and extend the product and say goodbye to me

Care to elaborate on that statement?

Is there something wrong with jobs at local market rates? No different to how you are paid.

People who are willing to pirate software other people in their industry pay for, want to pay zero if they can. It's all about cheap.