Politicking, back-stabing, power games, or even genuine but irreconcilably different visions and values are like 90% of corporate life. It is almost determinis

Politicking, back-stabing, power games, or even genuine but irreconcilably different visions and values are like 90% of corporate life. It is almost deterministic: when collective behavior builds something interesting somebody will try to climb on the building roof to stick out and be seen and somebody else will try to prevent them. The difference with FOSS is that such individual/community dynamics is out in the open, meticulously documented in git repos, so even a small bit of that behavior creates fireworks. This isn't really a weakness of the model and it is futile to believe that this type of phenomena could be completely eliminated if we could somehow devise the "perfect code of conduct" or governance. Hunker down, build good FOSS stuff. This, too, will pass.