[DanBC]

You're on a website chock full of users trying to make money by selling stuff. Of course they're going to be pro-selling stuff, even in sub-optimal closed-source forms.

MIT licence is pretty popular here for exactly that reason.

You may have avoided downvotes if you'd couched your argument in terms of licences. Perhaps.

[rbanffy]

The other thing that surprised me is the marked shift according to timezone. Right now, noon at GMT-3, I see upvotes for my opinions. However, as noon moved to the US West and mid-Pacific, a steady flow of bad karma hit my comments.

There is a master's or doctoral thesis in there somewhere waiting to be extracted...