[andars]

"Pony up" must mean something different for me than it does for you. I don't know what it means to OP, in my comment I mistakenly assumed my understanding of the phrase was fairly universal.

[klez]

Ok, but then

> It seems strange to make something available without payment and then get mad when people don't pay.

Seems to imply that "get mad" here refers to the fsf getting mad, which was the reason for my comment.