Note that the author of the original "800-pound gorilla" posting was talking about an open-source product he maintains. He said he was happy to accept patches

Note that the author of the original "800-pound gorilla" posting was talking about an open-source product he maintains. He said he was happy to accept patches from Windows developers who had figured out ways to make the product work on Windows. I certainly wouldn't criticize any maintainer of an open-source Windows application for saying the same thing in the other direction.