Speech opportunity.

I'd argue that if Dorsey's speech had been less self congratulatory on the surface and more about the financial end of getting open source funded and its potential gotchas it would have been more on point for community oriented FOSS conferences like FOSDEM. FOSDEM is more about social networking and increasing the visibility of small projects or hard problems and solutions that may benefit wider audiences irrespective of corporate or government interests. One of those hard problems is financial backing.

That's not how the speech title comes across. To me, Dorsey was intending to talk about exploitation of open source concepts and work product in the typical corporate speak: free labor and ideas from the commons for a better bottom line. This makes it inappropriate for any grass roots open source conference and more appropriate for astroturfed corporate cheer leading conferences.

So to me, the Spacecake comment was definitely over the top and rightfully moderated, while friendlysock was using one of the many tropes detractors use to derail criticism they don't like (throwing insults trope). It's not that friendlysock is missing the point, they're actively trying to derail criticism.