I wanted to remind people about this drama from the creator of HA, Frenck toward Nix maintainers packaging Home-Assistant in nixpkgs.
If he behaves in this immature, dictatorial way, it is not a stretch to think that he will eventually close his source code and/or cash in on the popularity of his open source software like the Pi Foundation and OpenAI did to differing degrees.
TLDR; Frenck is convinced that he has the right to unilaterally mandate how people package his free, open source software and, in my opinion, will most likely behave with similar lack of integrity/lack of transparency with regards to profiteering off of his work eventually. We should fork the project ASAP to protect it from the power-hungry Luddite in charge (that reminds me of Spez).
Now I understand that you are personally involved and emotionally invested.
It would have suited you (and your case) well to make this transparent before calling somebody a dick etc.
This is so weird. There’s a lot of white knights in here shooting the messenger.
Have you heard the story of the man who was driving his car fast on the freeway when he heard a warning on the radio: a car on the freeway drives in the wrong direction! And he thinks “One? There must be hundreds…”
:-)
The “messenger” seems to have a lot of bias they are parading around as an objective truth.
From what I’ve read the “white knights” you appear to be referring to are pretty clearly either developers or people with programming experience. To my eye they appear to be pretty level headed and on point in their observations.