The original tweet doesn't use the word "mooching"—and I think that's a good thing. The tweet says: > It's frustrating that the major cloud platforms ($MSFT,

The original tweet doesn't use the word "mooching"—and I think that's a good thing. The tweet says: > It's frustrating that the major cloud platforms ($MSFT, $AMZN, $GOOG) are now all supporting Avro, ORC, Parquet for data storage, but haven't lifted a finger to help build or maintain OSS libraries for use in Python to read and write them I agree—that does sound frustrating. When we build FOSS software, we naturally hope that it will resonate with many users, and that at least some of our users will contribute to that software and make it better. When that doesn't happen, it's deeply frustrating. What it isn't is mooching. Free software is, well, free software. It's not "free on the condition that you contribute" or "free unless you have a $1+ trillion market cap. It's free software, which means anyone and everyone can use it without any obligation to pay, either with money or with time. (I realize that the original tweet doesn't contradict this, but think this point is important enough to be worth emphasizing, especially when words like "mooching" enter the conversation.)