I'm sorry, but I just can't make any sense out of this.
> This presenting it as a trivial "if you don't like it, leave" is a deliberate and bad-faith oversimplification
This is not an oversimplification, this is a fact that you don't like and prefer to ignore. It doesn't disappear when you close your eyes though.
A grumpy person made an open source project that by chance became successful. He didn't force all these people and corporations to use it and fund it, it was a free choice on their part.
What is he supposed to do now, change his personality to please random people on the internet? Why? How do you even see this happening? Or you think grumpy people should have been prohibited from writing code in the first place?
Furthermore he does not hold anyone hostage as you try to present this. Linux is not Linux Foundation. You can use and develop Linux without funding the Linux Foundation. It's just more convenient like that but again you are free to exchange patches outside of it.
People who walk in and say "nice project you have here, now you comply or we take it away from you" don't have my sympathy.
> This presenting it as a trivial "if you don't like it, leave" is a deliberate and bad-faith oversimplification
This is not an oversimplification, this is a fact that you don't like and prefer to ignore. It doesn't disappear when you close your eyes though.
A grumpy person made an open source project that by chance became successful. He didn't force all these people and corporations to use it and fund it, it was a free choice on their part.
What is he supposed to do now, change his personality to please random people on the internet? Why? How do you even see this happening? Or you think grumpy people should have been prohibited from writing code in the first place?
Furthermore he does not hold anyone hostage as you try to present this. Linux is not Linux Foundation. You can use and develop Linux without funding the Linux Foundation. It's just more convenient like that but again you are free to exchange patches outside of it.
People who walk in and say "nice project you have here, now you comply or we take it away from you" don't have my sympathy.