I’m literally not complaining about closed source and my comment does nothing of the sort .. in fact I disagree with the “open source or nothing” mentality. I just don’t see why someone feels so strongly that his project should be paid for by the community, when it’s privately owned and not meant to benefit the community as a whole.

You seem quite emotionally invested in this. I get he’s a nice guy and probably many of your friend, perhaps read my comment again and stop assuming you need to defend him, as I wasn’t attacking.