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This is way off the deep end as a response to a company offering a tool that nobody has to use if they don’t want to.

> I am explaining to you why it’s in your own self interest

That’s for your opinion of my own interests.

JetBrains don’t tell me what I should do, or tell me that I don’t know my own interests, or make moral judgements against me, only people like you do that.

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If we, the discerning consumer, could just take and toss the flyer being thrust into our faces by the picketer outside the Amazon warehouse (or the free software movement's equivalent), the world and HN would be a less acrimonious place.

Why would a corporation make a judgement against you when you’re advocating for them?

They don’t make judgements if you’re advocating for them or not.

If I turn down a service from a company they don’t question my morals or call me a hypocrite do they? That just doesn’t happen like you think it does.

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