Let's pull back up the core line here:

>it's not "unreasonable" to ask for patches along with bug fixes, but it is unreasonable to be mad if they don't

So the ask (make a patch for your CVEs) is reasonable. It follows that to fail to do so is unreasonable. Whether the poster agrees Google is unreasonable or not is up for debate, but if they choose to espouse that the request is reasonable and that Google is reasonable, they're putting forth an irrational belief not rooted in their own logic.

But hey, lots of folks on HN are biased towards Google for financial reasons, so I totally get it.

But either their stance is how I said, or if their stance differs they are a hypocrite, there really is no middle ground here.

> So the ask (make a patch for your CVEs) is reasonable. It follows that to fail to do so is unreasonable.

Ah, that's where the confusion happens. It's your stance that it follows, but tpmoney was directly disagreeing with that logic.

tpmoney's stance, and my stance, is that it's reasonable to ask and it's also reasonable to say no.

It's not irrational to say that you can reasonably decline a reasonable request. Jeez.

(Also even if it was irrational, that wouldn't make tpmoney a hypocrite. That claim is just weird.)