It seems like you are pretty angry at me trying to get the notion across that this is good, but they could do better. That’s okay, I can deal with that.
But I want to make one thing clear: I’m not doing this for HN karma. I haven’t commented on here in years, and this article prompted a reaction. Trying to somehow shoehorn that into "you’re only doing this for points” is invalidating that in a way that I find troubling, because, really, how can I prove you wrong? I might just have an opinion on something and wanted to engage with a community about it, or I might not. Only I can tell (and you, apparently).
EDIT: Correction. I submitted two comments 2 months ago that I forgot about, the comments before that are from 2019.
0des|3 years ago
Or..
I can say "thank you for your supporting open source" and skip all the stuff about acting like a sanctimonious jerk on HN for magic points.
Right now, you're being that guy in a lot of these comments.
hellerve|3 years ago
But I want to make one thing clear: I’m not doing this for HN karma. I haven’t commented on here in years, and this article prompted a reaction. Trying to somehow shoehorn that into "you’re only doing this for points” is invalidating that in a way that I find troubling, because, really, how can I prove you wrong? I might just have an opinion on something and wanted to engage with a community about it, or I might not. Only I can tell (and you, apparently).
EDIT: Correction. I submitted two comments 2 months ago that I forgot about, the comments before that are from 2019.
iso1631|3 years ago
Microsoft revenue is $160B. Have they donated $2.6 billion to open source this year?