The title of your article is “I am not a supplier,” not “I am not your supplier.”

And yes, you literally are a supplier if you are putting things out there for free, with no strings and no support, and others are taking them.

(The article is very nice otherwise and I agree with your points, just not the language)

Once again, if i leave my sofa on the curb, i am not a supplier. It may happen that someone pick it out. That does not change the fact i am not a supplier of sofas.

No you come back for more improved sofas. Original sofa owner doesn’t even have to know who took it.

Analogy doesn’t suck, looking through “I’m entitled” lenses distorts the picture for you.

Sure. But few go whining back to the original coder when the code is abandoned.

It’s when the code is maintained, bugs are fixed, releases are put together, etc. that people start acting entitled.

A better analogy would be someone who opens a sofa depo, starts giving away “as-is” sofas, then starts building new sofas and improving them. Some people take those sofas and use them in rental homes. Then it turns out that someone planted listening devices in some of the sofas, so the landlords start showing up at the depo and asking questions about supply chain security…

> If you take the sofa i left on the side of the curb to bring it home, i am not your supplier.

Yes, you are. That you do so completely passively doesn't erase the fact that you are supplying something and that some kind of a relationship exists.

The law(s) generally also recognize it like that, and the license you are quoting does so as well ('_provided_ "AS IS"').

Sure, your relationship can be a completely passive non-business no-strings relationship, but the relationship is still there.

More to the point, if you leave free sofas in a place where there is ~always one for someone to take if they want, you are a supplier.