Agreed. The open-source world is famously bare knuckled, from the top down. When your standard bearers are the famously freaky rms, or the famously acerbic Lin

Agreed. The open-source world is famously bare knuckled, from the top down. When your standard bearers are the famously freaky rms, or the famously acerbic Linus, the tone set tends to be rather concerned with "truth" and absolutely unconcerned with "feelings". Not making this right or wrong. Just saying.