An airdrop is the distribution of coins at no cost. It's essentially a giveaway offered to those who register for it.
Airdrops are used to spark interest for a new coin but as well to encourage involvement by the community.
Airdrops also offside the miningprocess which is the more usual way to obtain coins, besides buying. This may upset miners but they can participate in the airdrop so everyone is treated equal in regards to the distribution of the coin
That is free money
No one wants to upset the miners that could be the end of a new coin!!!!
No no no...
Basically a coin and doing an airdrop usually always mined all of their coin,
which mean they have 90%++ from total supplay,and they give it away to people as a giveaway for joining the community or showing some interest in their coin.
not only that,many people(not new coin or developer) doing an airdrop aka 'GIVEAWAY' for people who's meet their criteria such as if you're registered under his affiliate he will give you money or coin .this is called AIR DROP
so in conclucion,an airdrop will not make a miner upset because it's free and only some small project that mined by the developer for less than 70% and the rest can be mined by the miner.but that won't make the miners feel upset because they know about it and most likely they know the consequences if the developer runing away