Well, they didn't, so this thread just ended up polluting the comment section with the very noise it sought to lament. HN comments in my experience are far mor

Well, they didn't, so this thread just ended up polluting the comment section with the very noise it sought to lament. HN comments in my experience are far more reasonable than you're describing, and the entitled "free stuff" attitude only comes up in response to things like big corporations yanking support for a project (see: Docker). Everyone loves curl and nobody is complaining about the amazing software built and maintained primarily by a single developer.