[keikobadthebad]

What do you think happens if it's decided (by the service provider) you or your company failed to abide by a code of conduct... your access to the services are revoked.

It seems right to say if access to what the free service does is important to you, you should take steps to make your own arrangements to ensure it can't disappear arbitrarily. And not, eg, leech off free, revocable, provision and then complain your freebie went away.

[ookblah]

yeah it's not that black and white in practice. we make all sorts of risk calculations when building in an ecosystem. some of these things are consistency, leadership, stability, etc.

free or not, if standards were maintained a certain way for a long period of time and then suddenly changed or are not applied consistently that is called a breach of trust and people are justified in expressing their anger and disappointment.

[keikobadthebad]

There are two separate, distinct, things here.

Are you 'justified' to decide to use your granted rights to step up and do something about what's bothering you? Yes. If you have enough energy, you can fork and gather people behind your version, to the point the original folds. Of course, you'll have to have a meaningfully different strategy about withdrawl of development services, otherwise no point. It's absolutely open to you to walk that walk.

Are you 'justified' in complaining you are no longer getting free services from a project you leeched? No. It's not even useful to you to do so.