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As a long-time OSS contributor and an active maintainer on a different OSS operating system, I can definitively state that the answer is: yes, it’s absolutely limiting.

They received a reported-by credit, which was more than sufficient — especially on a tiny patch that got rewritten.

The important work was identifying and reporting the issue, and they got credit for that.

By turning around and writing an angry blog post, they turned a non-issue into some seriously unpleasant drama. Nobody is going to particularly want to deal with them again.