The HN crowd is changing. They don't want to hear about the importance of FOSS. I just got downvoted into oblivion for talking about eee, with the same old tired logical fallacies being thrown around (but what about apple!, but at least it's open source! but that was the 90s! microsoft is different now!)

Nowadays FOSS is a commodity written by useful idiots or persons employed by companies that use it for strategic purposes.

It's unfortunately not only HN that is changing. Look closely what's happening in established OSS projects.