We have to pay the people to do that work — those passionate contributors grinding through those long hours and nights who believe in open source values.

This all sounds a little too melodramatic for me to get behind. It’s nice that they want to pay people for their work, but to imply that the only way to do it is their way seems to me to be the disingenuous side of the argument. A lot of free software organizations get by just fine on donations.

Simply repackaging the code that these individuals produce and reselling it as is, with no value added, makes the production of this open source software unsustainable.

The narrative that repackaging adds “no value” is a disingeuous one, as well.

Hobestly, I can respect that. They seem to be fairly open about the motivations of that decision and who it’s targeted it without devolving into vague fluffy corporate speech too much. You can sense the author was a bit pissed by the reactions.
And I do agree that many of the reactions to the news seemed overblown and I think the actions make sense from their point of view without being super shady, even if it still has some negative repercussions for the open source world as well.