Your reply was fully expected. And so that reply in form and content may be the reply when you inquire of any other who post to the forum in general.
So, it seemed reasonable, in that instance, to ask what it was going to cost to lose his contribution and to explain why I wanted to know.
If he’s going to take is money and run and blame it on these threads that I find valuable, then I don’t want FR to financially be hurt for it.