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Not even just entitlement, but a lot of people thrown off by the existence of telemetry. Telemetry that it tells you about when you install it, and is mentioned on their site.

So not only are people complaining about free software, they’re complaining because they don’t pay attention. It’s the “Everything someone else does is not as good as what I do” mentality

Entitlement syndrome. Nothing is perfect, not even paid software is perfect. At least open source gives a chance for someone to look into how it's done, suggest/discuss something different and submit a modification if affordable.

EDIT: Typo

A lot of us have had bad experiences with the developers. They make poor decisions and then label feedback about those poor decisions as "abusive."

Personally, I've moved on. MacPorts is great. More people should use it.

This is the ugly side of HN in my opinion. Discussions here are usually very reasonable, except for a few subjects such as telemetry.

I guess to the hacker heads of HN, telemetry is as political as religion for regular people.