[brianpgordon]

Mainly:

> As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.

Also see my response on the gist itself:

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

Feel free to use my HN comment as an upvote/downvote proxy since gist doesn't support upthumbs/downthumbs on comments.

[firepoet]

Thanks for being one of the few voices of humanity in this exchange. This whole situation just feels.. icky.. to me. I wish I knew what long term effects Rich's statement will have on the community, but I can't help but think that it will probably verge towards the opposite of embracing diverse viewpoints. That makes me quite sad.

[village-idiot]

Rich is very quick to escalate from “I feel X about action Y” to “you are Z”, where Z is negative.

Example, people are frustrated about how Rich runs his project. They are expressing how they feel about Rich’s actions, which is fair. Rich is under no obligation to change, but Rich’s response is to call people entitled. This is an attack against the person, not against the action, and it’s a chilling escalation.

Also, the fans cheer him on, which is gross.

[cellularmitosis]

Thanks for your perspective, I can see how you really can read two tones into his statement.

Side note: it appears gist links aren't stable? I think halgari had the same issue when trying to link to his response.