Comment by village-idiot

Rich Hickey needs to stop poking people in the eye with a stick.

> You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.

This could be handled much more diplomatically. What he's saying here is "fuck you and your needs". Opportunity cost waits for nobody, but taking a second to not provoke people is a good idea.

> We at Cognitect have to show up to work, every day, to make a living. We get no royalties of any kind from Clojure.

Ditto for the people who wrote open source libraries, some that are critical for Clojure's adoption. In fact they typically did this after working a 9-5, rather than during it.

> To be honest, I could use that money in my retirement account, having depleted it to make Clojure in the first place.

"Look how much I've suffered for you!" is about as effective for leadership as it is for parenting.

> But kindly don't burn the community down on your way out, with self-serving proclamations.

That's a nice "fuck you" to frustrated developers. "Shut up with your complaints and go away" is a bad community management technique.