"Please provide a link to the message in question. It sounds serious."

I did not follow development of inkcape and the message I mean, was from around 10+ years ago .. in an interview with whom it sounded like the main dev at the time(don't remember the name). And the statement was a bit hyperbole as well, to get across the point, "you want a lot of things, so send a lot of money, so I can hire lots of people to make them happen, otherwise be patient"

So no worries, no one today is (afaik) abusing inkscape ..