I have to say, after having contributed thousands of commits to free software, recruited hundreds of people to do the same, and directed tens of millions of dol

I have to say, after having contributed thousands of commits to free software, recruited hundreds of people to do the same, and directed tens of millions of dollars to open-source contributions... this stings a little. For the record I don't have views unfriendly to free software. But I have upset many people by disagreeing with their design opinions, and as a result not merging their pull requests. Sometimes those people imagine a conspiracy of evil VCs smoking cigars, instructing me to reject their patch for an obscure capitalistic motive that they can't quite express. When in reality the explanation is simpler: I disagree on their opinion, and I have commit rights. If you point out an example of my supposed hostility to free software, I will be happy to refute it with objective facts. But then everyone is free to believe what they want to believe.