I am not familiar with this particular situation, but while baseless entitlement is bad, criticism is good, and when you publish something with the intention th

I am not familiar with this particular situation, but while baseless entitlement is bad, criticism is good, and when you publish something with the intention that others use it---and reading his post it seems to me that what he does it not open sourcing a tool he made for himself, he wants people to use pipenv---you are no more the sole owner of it. More so if other people put effort (i.e. patches and bug reports and proposals) in to it. The OP says: > My response to this comment is — first off, my fame, while certainly categorized under “cult of personality” is not necessarily accidental. It’s called marketing. I worked very hard at becoming well known within the Python community, and toiled away at it for years. after quoting >> If only these people didn't advertise themselves as the next best thing to sliced bread, collecting undeserved fame, jobs, influence, and as consequence harming very large number of people and technology in general, I wouldn't mind them doing whatever projects they like. (w/o attribution, unfortunately), which shows that, if pipenv is a sub-par but popular solution (I did not ever use it), this latter quote may be a completely valid criticism. I am diverting from my point: if Ken wants and encourages the python community to use pipenv, then he might have to obey that community, and he better does. But if he's releasing pipenv just to give back to the community and share his solution to his problems with others, then you're right. After all, if the participants have no regards for each other, that's a bunch of selfish people, not a community.