Such a bug didn't deserve the snarkiness it got; as the article author notes, Linux itself remains a minor platform for end users, and benefits from people doing ports to Linux of software that has more users on other platforms. (For instance, Firefox and Chrome both have far more users on Windows than Linux.) But apart from the unnecessarily snarky response, I think this played out exactly as it should have. A kinder response would have been "none of us run OpenBSD, but if you can provide a non-invasive patch, we'll merge it". Which ended up happening anyway.