It's bully behavior.

It reminds me of the creeps in school that punched me, shoved me into lockers, tried to assault me.

I almost killed myself as a kid because of bullies. Some people never grow out of that, it seems.

Ziglang is a small organization supported by donations, Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world. If anything, they're punching up.

Calling people losers isn't classy, but if I were a well-paid Microsoft employee I'd laugh all the way to the bank that some community funded purist called me that. If it's supposed to be bullying he isn't very good at it.

Hmm, that seems plausible, yeah. It's unfortunate munchler didn't say something like that. But it seems like now people on HN are dogpiling on this Andrew guy? I imagine he'll feel the same way reading this thread, won't he? Surely there's a solution for bullying other than more bullying?

Regardless, it's hard for me to imagine that many readers will find great intellectual interest in a long thread about what a terrible person Andrew is.