Microsoft copied the model for operating systems. Token resistance from programmers.
Kite copies the model for programming tools. Too late, programmers.
If you can't see the distinction between this and the examples you mention, you really don't qualify to make sarcastic comments.
HN is specifically geared towards people who make a living coding things in the new "surveillance economy." This particular example (to go along with the dotnet command line issue) is just a difference in degree, not kind. They're mad that someone else is abusing their trust and privacy.
Welcome to the party, pal!
That is a narrow way to look at things and is not the full picture. Plenty of people protested and still protest Google's unethical business practices.