Comment by bartread

> For anyone out of the loop, he sounds like an interstellar douchebag. And, because the article is public, this can become a problem.

I'm out of the loop and didn't get this sense at all. His points seemed fair enough to me. There's way too much entitlement evident amongst people who use, and sometimes even contribute, to OSS[1]. It gets frustrating, and Rich has explained why.

[1] I've never been an maintainer of a popular OSS project, and don't want to be, but a few years ago I was a custodian for a relatively popular free (as in beer, not as in speech) tool, and we'd often get emails from users acting like we owed them something.