My time has come, I will not lurk anymore. Where are the pitchforks btw?

Wot. Everyone has an old throwaway?

Really? Whats wrong with calling someone a Karen?!

It doesn't take much googling to answer that.

Edit: look you guys, We're not Bowdlers and have never been interested in language policing but I wouldn't have thought this was a borderline case.

It's not a borderline case. People have trouble with the distinction between a judgement about a word overall, and a judgement about what a word will do to an HN thread. Also, people just like to gripe.

Yes, this is actually not unusual. People need food, water, shelter, and suchlike in order to survive, and so they exchange their labour for goods and services. Money is a helpful token now rather widely used in this bartering process.

I know it's quite common in the web development community to take a lot of freely provided code which took immense labour to write, and then stitch it together, in a way that requires very little skill or effort, in order to sell the result - but this isn't the norm in the world at large.

Their developers decided donating their time to a bunch of demanding know-it-alls with no appreciation for their work was a bad deal for them.