The fact that we get so much traffic and contributors to our community from HN means that for every 1 person like you who is so disgruntled and disturbed by oth

The fact that we get so much traffic and contributors to our community from HN means that for every 1 person like you who is so disgruntled and disturbed by other hackers talking about their Open Source projects, that there is a good 70 to 80 who appreciate it, get value from it, discover a new cool tool, and wind up building projects and helping out. Can you see, at all, from the other perspective? Maybe I annoy the living daylights out of you, but can you also see how you come off as one of those cliche "hater HN commentors"? If you had 3 worlds to choose from, one where people openly talk about their work which they give away for free to others, or a world where everybody tries to censor, silence, and hate on others for being passionate about their Open Source projects, or a world where, because everybody is so spiteful and nobody is supportive, that everybody is forced to make their software proprietary and charge for it. Which world would you want to be in? VC funding is another indication/signal of the value I have created. And no, they don't want me to do some stupid "open core" crippleware (like some of my competitors do) or even convert the open source code from MIT/similar to a terrible AGPL/similar license. They want me to create such a core component of infrastructure that we become the defacto standard, like MySQL, Redhat, and others have become. So no. You have no basis to hate what we are doing, except for your own frustration probably at hate others have given you. Don't pass that along, you are better than that.