I would respect someone who was genuinely opposed to the concept of open source and stuck to their guns.

To repeatedly fork other projects and close the source and hassle other devs, some who never even used any of your code, is just showing you are a bad actor in the space.

I've bought my last coinkite product and I will no longer recommend them to others. I will however continue to purchase from and donate to devs who are harassed just for doing the open source freedom code thing.