My guess is that none of the people who are lecturing and gloating have ever written anything substantial. Shame on you.
Just pointing out the hypocrisy of embracing "openness" and "free software" that anyone could use freely, then getting mad when someone does use it.
Also it's funny to see the FOSS crowd rediscover the need for intellectual property, having denounced it when it was applied in the opposite direction.
You're basically implying people who do not subscribe to you philosophy as lazy and/or unproductive.
As for the author, it sucks, but companies, moral and law, don't stand on the same side of the balance.
How is it not treated fairly in a moral sense?
I don’t think many comments are hostile. The title is entirely clickbait, and for generating PR for the author.
Therefore, shouldn't he be thanking Amazon for spreading his software?
That’s pretty much unrealistic, given how many pieces of oss a project uses.