ESR clearly blew a gasket and banning him, however temporarily, is a necessary thing. He does, however, make a couple goodish points: - Zero tolerance CoCs ar

ESR clearly blew a gasket and banning him, however temporarily, is a necessary thing. He does, however, make a couple goodish points: - Zero tolerance CoCs are a disgrace for software because the friendly-or-else atmosphere they help create makes horrible-but-personable people thrive in places where they'd otherwise be laughed out of the room. Politicians excel at this game; see Congress' CoC forcing reps to call each other "my good friend" instead of (for example) "this baby murderer over here" no matter how horrible a proposal they made is. This is a Hard Problem to solve though. - The ESD is a terrible, unusable license that shouldn't be called Open Source, for various reasons like how its "freedom" functionally depends on how litigious the creators of a software piece woke up that day waaay more than traditional OS licenses, giving authors a direct link between their personal values and their actual, inanimate work product. Imagine being able to buy a yoga book, then getting sued because the author required you to be a vegan first. Give ESR a couple days rest, knock on his door and have a proper chat? Maybe this can actually be resolved with actual honesty for one.