[phlakaton]

To further clarify my position: I believe that rules of decorum, including responses to breaches in decorum, should govern not just traditional customer-business relationships, but user-developer and open-source community relationships as well – particularly the higher up the open-source ladder you go. Good business practice often means good community practice as well, and a healthy community is more likely to attract and retain good developers.

Now I am aware that several leaders of several major open-source communities do not consider such restraint to be necessary or even desirable. They're of course welcome to manage their communities as they see fit. I think it's a mistake though, and I believe it will lead inevitably to serious issues in those communities, if indeed it hasn't already.