This is a straw man. No one made this generalization.
Marak, specifically, is a "selfish baddy", and it has nothing to do with FOSS. It has to do with his abuse of Github, npm, and Faker.js (which other people also contributed to) to distribute malware.
None of that can be generalized to a position about FOSS, Microsoft, or any other nonsense you're trying to extrapolate. It's specifically about a bad actor who was removed from a platform.
Sorry you were complaining about straw man arguments?
>> It's a "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" situation.
> It's a bit mind-boggling that FOSS authors who give their work away for free are the selfish baddies, and Microsoft of all people, are the communistic heroes in your telling.
The discussion is about Github - microsoft - undoing the author's changes, the guy I replied to saying that this was good because he felt the author was "doing harm". So he definitely is saying that microsoft are the heroes there defeating "harm". And since he is supposed to be "doing harm" for his own benefit, the FOSS author being overridden by microsoft is the "selfish baddie".
For my edification, if you have a moment you can you help me understand where my comment failed to hew to a valid analysis of that part of the discussion and became some nasty straw manning activity?
https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712417019686100992
https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unp...
But Marak specifically is, and Microsoft being the good actor is indicative of how badly he messed up.
If his goal was to make a statement about big corporations taking more than they give to FOSS, arranging things so Microsoft gets to be the hero was a foolish way to go about it.
It's a "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" situation.