[CBarkleyU]

Is this some kind of next level sarcarsm that I'm not getting? The "other side" literally implied that the developers response better not have been a "thinly veiled extortion attempt". Not really sure how a developer of an open source project can extort IBM, but yknow...

[wg0]

No it is not sarcasm. It is a possible outcome of an interaction where the commercial entity needlessly accuses of extortion and such. Might happen.

[CBarkleyU]

Still not sure what you mean by "might happen". It literally did happen, check out the second screenshot.