Weird situation, cause I totally can sympathize to both sides of the argument. I see why Kondrah's upset, I see why the community feels theres odd double standards, but I also completely understand why the rule was issued in the first place.
My only input is kind of to mimic what
@Leo32 mentions above. Innovation has slowed down alot over the last half a decade. Likely because much of the community is older, too busy to be in the OT hobby/industry with a current occupation. Now, the small minority has been able to make OT development an actual job, whether freelance programming, running a project, freelance mapping, art, whatever.
I see why it's easy to first move to discouraging this. Because there were many before us that did this all purely as a hobby, as a free service to the community. However, as people grow up, some choices arise. A massive one being, do I try to progress the OT space with my time, or do I move on to something else and abandon the community. The primary factor in that choice as an adult is where the money is. Unfortunately, most adults need to make money to pay rent, food, bills, possibly even the cost of a child/dependant. This means they either find a way to be a minority in this space, and make money progressing and furthering projects and OT's as a whole, or they simply leave the community.
My point being, one result is this person is gone, and our community has shrunk, and OT's lose that progression. The other result is this person strengthens the community and OT's, keeping them relevant and evolving, and sure, they make some money for their time.
In the end, if Kondrah is one of the few people seriously progressing OTC and making it a serious viable alternative like he indeed is, and charging for it, well whats the alternative, he gets blacklisted, censored, and moves on from the OT space and we lose that progression.
Again, I see both sides, I totally understand Don's side, and OTland's stance in general. Just saying theres really only 2 outcomes that happen with a community at our age, and one of those strengthens and progresses it, where the other simply lets it fizzle off into nothing.