"Saw how you went from "no time and money" to "no significant work"? "
You're right that text is not easy to interpret. For instance, there were two interpretations of my text: a literal and precise one that focuses on how much effort I say he would commit; an interpretation that realizes I was speaking figuratively with hyperbole. It was the latter. The message was a counterpoint supporting that he was selfish rather than a precise statement of how selfish he was. You would be 100% right if we were talking literally about him such as in a court filing or HR report.
"Notice the "at first", notice also the following proposed action of working with a snapshot. You made clear you were expecting another reaction. And I see why. Still, I think you miss how much good faith was contained in this response."
This is possible. Let me re-read his post first. Alright, done. Here's a re-review.
His first response starts with thanks and statements that show either (a) an incredibly joyous and friendly personality or (b) brown-nosing of a salesman before a pitch. Horizontal line. Unclear on some things. Asks for more information. We then get to the reasons:
1. Did no work on syncing data to reduce funded development hours.
2. Don't want to operate a repo due to reduced effort or funding.
3. Easier for their users and adoption.
These are all self-centered. Honest as you said but already support my claim of selfishness. Let's keep looking. Upon a suggestion of other packaging systems, vaguely claims they are using a "smarter" method then reiterates HR and funding justifications above. Ignores alternatives in next sentence to reiterate their existing, strange, and broken solution with a dismissal about having to build a cathedral rather than just using existing solutions.
So, Alloy already laid a foundation of total selfishness in terms of time, funding, and design inflexibility. At this point, Alloy is interested in solutions that totally maintain their existing design and lack of commitment to anything else. Offers to make a few simple changes that "would still use your resources." Asks for information that basically leads to those in recommendations that they begin to apply.
So, re-reading his post, it comes off as incredibly selfish using text that's not hard to interpret. He clearly believes their design works, won't be changed unless forced, changes must take little effort from them, they must not use their funding, and must specifically use GitHub's resources. My claim of selfish and externalizing is fully supported at this point. I think the other commenter's claim of being "myopic" about what he's doing in the project is accurate, too.