Nothing wrong with calling out any person or persons for offensive behaviour. I'm biased, of course: I live and work in Ontario, where showing some of these sli

Nothing wrong with calling out any person or persons for offensive behaviour. I'm biased, of course: I live and work in Ontario, where showing some of these slides in the workplace could be construed as violations of the human rights code: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/issues/sexual_harassment http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/issues/sexual_harassment That being said, Ruby the language was created by Matz, who is not named in the indictment. The other persons involved are simply persons who use a tool and have gained some notoriety for creating things or saying certain technical things that other people have found valuable. They are not officers in a corporation. They have no authority to speak for me as a "Ruby Programmer," therefore I reject any suggestion that misbehaviour on their part reflects upon me or any other person who chooses to use Ruby and/or Rails. I think the people to call to task are those who either take inappropriate action or those who act as gatekeepers of a sort and fail to filter. For example, if I were "curating" a conference of any kind in Toronto, I would demand that presenters respect the laws in place in Ontario. That's my responsibility. But beyond that, these people are not leaders in any non-technical sense. They do not speak for me. I respect their technical accomplishments but I don't follow their every example.