I don’t think anything, and I’m not accusing you of anything, I’m just saying, a lot of folks started with pure motives and got poisoned along the way.

For what it’s worth, it’s not very reassuring that you have a bunch of open source projects but you’ve decided this one is not going to be. Rather than showing I can trust you, it rather makes me wonder what you’re hiding.

The answer may well be nothing, but it’s still strange.

I get you might feel that way about it, but that’s not how it is.

The strange thing is your reaction, don’t you think: If you see a proprietary source product and you think “what’s it hiding?” and if you can’t respect a boundary of not revealing source without projecting an imagined bad onto that, that’s just you, my dude, and I’m not responsible how you react at all.

So you might wanna try to put your mistaken attitude on me, but really you need to own that. And your attitude seems mistakenly entitled.

Also the trust issues are warrantless. And, in reality, if you look at my projects, the most important ones are not “open source”.

You judged too quickly, without context, like many here and arrived at conclusions that are just not warranted.

You shouldn’t be arguing with anyone about that because why you came to those doubts or conclusions is something you have to figure out yourself, it’s not something anyone else can help you with.

> I’m just saying, a lot of folks started with pure motives and got poisoned along the way.

That’s not how I see things. That’s not been my experience of the world. I understand if it’s been yours though. Poor you. I guess in that case my advice is just try to keep in mind that not everyone is gonna have the same kind of negative outlook as you and try to be understanding towards them. There’s a lot of good in the world if you open your eyes to it, I hope you find some.

> if you can’t respect a boundary of not revealing source without projecting an imagined bad onto that, that’s just you, my dude, and I’m not responsible how you react at all

I’m responding to the change, as something worth scrutiny. You used to publish open source projects, now this is closed source. Why?

> So you might wanna try to put your mistaken attitude on me, but really you need to own that. And your attitude seems mistakenly entitled

What mistaken attitude, what am I putting on you, and what is my “entitlement”?

> You judged too quickly > You shouldn’t be arguing > my advice is

Please stop dressing up your arguments as some kind of metaphysical commentary on my character. I don’t need advice, I didn’t judge you, and I didn’t plan on arguing. You built something, some people think it’s cool, a lot of people think it’s problematic. You want to keep it closed source, some people find that worrying.

Keep your faux pity for yourself, engage with me in good faith on the merits of the points I’m making, otherwise we’re done here.

You think I owe you source code, is entitled. You project strange onto change, is low empathy. There's no metaphysics, your unwarranted criticism is a reflection of your character. Don't pretend your weird subjective reaction is anything I need to respond to, nor any reflection of me - it's just you.

You have 0 right to attack or accuse me in any way. That you think you do makes you even more entitled and low empahty. Geez....

Their pattern here of immediately going on the offensive to even the smallest amount of inquiry or criticism is totally normal and not at all suspicious.

Maybe they're just having a bad day. Friendly reminder that you don't have to respond to something as soon as you read it, or even at all.

Dishonest. You have no idea about me, Plus "I don't trust your work" is an attack, it's not a neutral inquiry.

You tried to launder that through a question but it got rejected and exposed. And you can't cover that up now, no matter how much you try ever again.

Touch grass

I think you can (eventually) do better than your comments here.