The quote in the article is not what the maintainer actually wrote. What they wrote was:

Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

Seems they should have attributed correctly but they weren’t as dismissive as the blog makes it seem.

Here is a case from America: https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/special-comment/ebay-v-newmark-al-franken-was-right-corporations-are-legally-required-to-maximize-profits/

What are downvotes seen by kbin users on lemmy content? It could just be the kbin instance’s local downvotes of the federated content but I never noticed a lack of down votes on lemmy-hosted content when I was running a personal kbin instance.