> That’s how you get contributions that are huge hacks and require more work to review and iterate on than is worth it to the community.
And yet the author here is saying please work together. Presumably he or the community is okay with picking apart those huge hacks. I'm not sure why you should care what that community is willing to accept, unless you're part of it.
> If some company forks for an observability product and doesn’t contribute back, they clearly don’t want to. Don’t try to force them.
Who's forcing anyone? Did you not notice the "please" he starts that statement with?
> Demanding people contribute to your project instead of forking just sounds like demands to pay homage more than anything.
That's just a straw man, nobody demanded anything, and I'm not sure why you'd even try to insinuate he was when he literally says please.
If I had to paraphrase the part of the post you're critiquing, I would do so as "If you're using these tools, don't feel like you have keep any stuff you do separate. We'd like to build something better for everyone, so feel free to contribute to the project rather than keeping it separate and we can all build on each other's work." That's pretty standard open source ideals IMO.