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Totally, and we appreciate the sentiment. But the title was meant to be lighthearted, and instead it clearly struck a nerve. That's not our intent, and it was easy to change, so we just swallowed our pride. We rather the conversation be around Protobuf tooling, and not our poor comedy.

And the Buf CLI will always be free and OSS, don't worry!

We're terrible comedians - we've added something of a mea culpa to the post!

Fair enough - feedback taken, we don't have a second career in comedy! Appreciate the feedback - we're renaming the post once GitHub is back online, and are adding the following to it for transparency:

> Edit: In full transparency, this blog post was originally titled "Protobuf finally has LSP support. You're Welcome." We thought this might generate some interest, but unfortunately this post sat unloved for months. Then, out of the blue, this post decided to make front page HN, and we received some choice feedback on our use of "You're Welcome" and our poor comedic abilities. Fair enough, we appreciate you speaking up - and we of course *thank you* for your continued support of our work!

That is for the text format, which is a serialized representation of Protobuf data. As they specify in the linked doc, it is not the format for the actual language:

> This format is distinct from the format of text within a .proto schema.