You basically can. The cost of free stuff like this is "be nice to the guy giving it to you" or at least don't be actively abusive about it. If the community won't pay that price, expect it to evaporate.

> The cost of free stuff is "be nice to the guy giving it to you".

Can I get this on a poster please? Really well put.

This goes both way though. Be nice when people submit patches especially when you reject them.

The abusive comment seems to have been a knee-jerk response from someone dissatisfied by the "it's boring" comment about a proof-of-concept patch.

You can retract it. He just did it. You can take down any webpage under your control. I could delete this comment later if I like. You could delete yours. etc.

> I could delete this comment later if I like.

Now you can’t.

The point of open source is that people can maintain their own forks etc. There's plenty of mirrors of actix I'm sure.

Why?

It’s no longer “his” code.