[thr0waway1239]

I looked at the article going in with a somewhat sympathetic view. But after reading that the person is at Microsoft, I thought "Well, good. Maybe now he will know what it was like about 10 years back for folks who were probably working just as hard as he is, plus having to deal with the absolute jackass behavior of the same company he now works at."

Karma?

[Veen]

So the unpleasantness and stress he deals with as part of a good-faith and unpaid effort to provide something of value to the wider community is perfectly fine because a decade ago his current employer caused problems for other open source developers? He's getting bad karma because of something other people did?

I'm struggling to comprehend the thinking that makes such sentiments seem remotely reasonable or rational.

[thr0waway1239]

Well, if you want to be that precise about the usage of words like karma, lets just say it is the organization's karma. I would like to think others can see my first comment as rhetorical.

Although I am now curious. If I found a way to link it to his karma would you actually like to hear about it?