To be honest, for me it's the opposite, judging by the developer's comments in other threads about the topic. He's not as nice as his responses in this one would suggest.
Edit: Just some examples to not make empty statements.
likening this to photomatt - who has been doing shady, extortionate, illegal stuff for 10+ years, and then actively spent 4+ months doing everything he could to ruin himself and wordpress - is laughable
I get the trolly natural of your response. But please point at anywhere in that five hours any of this about me. What do I get out of this beyond pushing hypermedia forward? Whoever you are mad at it is not me and I hope you can find peace.
I choose in my own fork of my own framework to license new scratch code different from old that was deprecated. I choose to have the new code fund things like a conference is even tuition for one of our dev for college that are antipatterns. I haven't made a dime. Please show me what anyone has taken from anyone.
You are the CEO of company that works in the hypermedia space. You are starting flamewars with other companies/projects in the space. It's blunt and obnoxious. No need to put on a mask in some threads or interviews we've all seen your real face. Nobody needs people like you in steward ship of projects. I would love to see you play the nice guy in a room with potential sponsors must be hilarious.
I'm the CEO of literally nothing. You clearly do understand anything about this space. I looked through your comments and your behavior and lack of positive dialogue on literally any subject is telling. I'm the same person all the time, have a live video call and stand by your comments. Feel free to expose me, I welcome it.
You think Datastar CEO is nothing beyond a joke. Oh I get it now, you have literally no idea about this space at all and are just a karma tourist farming for troll points. Sorry to feed you! Was hoping you'd actually engage with the values of the project. That is my fault and I apologize for keeping you fed. I will endure to be better in the future!
I don't need to know anything about the space to see that you are anything but a well adjusted person. That's all I said and that's all I need to know about you and your project. The last three days were humorous and datastar topics went to the top more than once so I had a look and found you. An adult CEO of one of the projects that talks like a 12 year old on IRC. I hope you take care of your blood pressure. Bye-bye.
Edit: Just some examples to not make empty statements.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540077
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540140
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542425
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538639
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540093
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540824
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539376
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539942
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539821