Going by their own words, the motivations of OSS maintainers are weird. They complain that people don’t appreciate their efforts. Little money in it. So when do they get some payoff? Apparently these moments of catharsis where they get to vent their frustration against the freeloaders. They’re like rich people who hate taxes and yet pay double on it anyway, just so they can tell off people who they consider to be freeloaders.

Just upload your code and forget about it, then. Or keep the code to yourself. Because the social side of OSS doesn’t seem to be working for you.