First off, nobody deserves any sort of abuse. Secondly, the Sneedacity incident was abuse targeted at a fork of the Audacity project, not at the original 'host

First off, nobody deserves any sort of abuse. Secondly, the Sneedacity incident was abuse targeted at a fork of the Audacity project, not at the original 'hostile takeover' project itself. The fork was intended to remove said abuse you feel is deserving of more abuse.