I for one am horrified at the sheer amount of ill will and sense of entitlement directed towards a developer who has been working tirelessly on high quality free and open source software out of his spare time. It's a thankless job he has continued for more than a decade.
These people have benefitted from iTerm2, possibly for years. Instead of giving back or thanking the person behind it, they chose to flood HN and the issue tracker with insults and lies. They literally pretend as if he's trying to sneak in spyware that steals each and every keystroke. They berate, mock, and question the morality of him and anyone else who dares to push back.
I see this kind of bullying behavior in some open source communities and am taken aback every time I see it. The lack of empathy on display here is ironically less than an LLM and that's saying something.
It appears your issue is not with the comment at the head of this thread specifically, but generally with other comments elsewhere (on HN and Github); that doesn't make the comment disrespect or untrue by association.
AI is a lightning rod issue, while insults are not ok, disagreement is inevitable, disagreeing wirh a decision a maintainer made is orthogonal to dis/respect.
Open Source is fickle - you can diligently work on a project for years and have it forked for mundane reasons, such as some people thinking you're not doing things fast enough for their liking, or you included a controversial feature - and they won't have to pay you or even send you a "thank you" note, that does not change the value of the contributions.
These people have benefitted from iTerm2, possibly for years. Instead of giving back or thanking the person behind it, they chose to flood HN and the issue tracker with insults and lies. They literally pretend as if he's trying to sneak in spyware that steals each and every keystroke. They berate, mock, and question the morality of him and anyone else who dares to push back.
I see this kind of bullying behavior in some open source communities and am taken aback every time I see it. The lack of empathy on display here is ironically less than an LLM and that's saying something.