The Linux Desktop Is Studded with Grifters

Invoking Occam's Razor, I think that most people who come into the open-source community, promise the moon, and open a Patreon/paypal, actually believe that they can make a difference where so many others failed. They've just vastly underestimated how hard it is to accomplish their promised goal. Then they get defensive. They use the newly-discovered complexity as an excuse to keep accepting donations, and put projects on hold without telling anyone, and move on to a new shiny area where they think they can make a difference. Sometimes they actually do eventually find a goal that they can accomplish, and deliver.

This doesn't seem like it has anything to do with "the linux desktop" but has to do with people taking money with no chance and/or intention of delivering. There aren't any examples given, can anyone think of a time that this happened?

Yeah, keeping it too vague to be useful.

I kinda assume from the post that he's calling out people who roll a thinly-skinned version of Ubuntu, call it a new distro, and setup a new domain to pitch it with a Donate button. But these usually fail to gain much traction, so it's hard to discern whether he's calling out a particularly large or popular distro in particular, or if he's instead calling out contributors within certain communities.

I assume the author doesn’t want to make accusations for fear of liability. Which makes the piece kinda weak.