[juxtapose]

I'm not sure if this counts for "robbery", but similar stories happen every day in the FOSS community, usually for very boring reasons, e.g. copyright assignments, or in the author's case, security concerns, presumably.

My first contribution to Emacs is a very similar experience as the author's. I took time to debug a long-standing issue in Emacs, I wrote a patch, I asked other users to test my patch, and I addressed comments on emacs-devel, but eventually it got completely rewritten by a maintainer without any credit for my efforts.

[ariel-miculas]

I used this word to emphasise my strong feelings about the situation.