[Mr_Sweater]

I struggle to see it as anything else and I find it difficult to read blog posts like this. Why are so many people so viscerally angry in oss?

[Tehchops]

There's definitely a demographic of that culture that comes across as having a very angsty, "hack the planet damn the man" attitude. A surefire way to stoke that anger is to involve them in any kind of process that results in profits being generated.

Zealotry is great when you've got ample time on your hands, but some folks have work to get done and bills to pay, i.e. the authors who's books OP is stealing...