I think some people are miffed that it took them almost a month to just respond to the letter. Maybe you don't care as much about certain software, but some people are really passionate about it.
Perhaps HNers would have appreciated some more substantive action by now, rather than just a response.
I'm confused by what these people are asking for. Should Github acquire a time machine? If so, instead of asking for an earlier response to this later, maybe they could just do things differently from the beginning so the letter was never necessary!
Being flippant is really unhelpful, and kind of insulting.
People really care about software.
Instead of just responding to us now with a letter that's totally sparse on details, what if GitHub gave us an idea of what they're actually going to do? "We're sorry" is really annoying to hear almost a month after the fact.
Maybe they are still trying to figure out what to do? There isn't an easy solution to some of these problems, and it is not like they have NOTHING else to do than solve this issue.
Perhaps HNers would have appreciated some more substantive action by now, rather than just a response.