Ok maybe the guy was wrong, but putting him on a pedestal like this is not fair to him. He has no tools to fight back public shaming. A fair fight would have be

Ok maybe the guy was wrong, but putting him on a pedestal like this is not fair to him. He has no tools to fight back public shaming. A fair fight would have been a better fork. Also, that's kinda the point of open source. For many of us developers ego massaging is the reward for contributing free work. It can certainly be a bad thing. But let's not kid ourselves that we would absolutely behave differently if put in a similar position. Even the best of us falter.