No, he as not been "tarred and feathered". The free software community, at long last, finally have decided humans are more important than bits and have excised

No, he as not been "tarred and feathered". The free software community, at long last, finally have decided humans are more important than bits and have excised people from their midst who treated bits as more important than humans. This was the right thing to do. I should know. (Sigh.)