> I trust the author is using LFS or Gentoo, and is personally building his Go toolchain and not using any Google-provided binaries?

There's a big difference between (a) not paying for something while being grateful to the maintainers for allowing you to get away with not paying, and (b) not paying for something while sneering at the maintainers and ironically calling them "classy" in hopes to cash in on short term community karma.