There was no link to the actual words each wrote in their conversation, so the whole brouhaha might be artificially amplified (eg. One party might have been rud

There was no link to the actual words each wrote in their conversation, so the whole brouhaha might be artificially amplified (eg. One party might have been rude or arrogant, the other might have just reacted). Besides, there is a confusion in one of the arguments between getting content for free and getting authors to work for free.