Linux with Linus, who famously had to change his abusive tone? GCC with Richard Stallman, accused of various kinds of sexual misconduct? Python, which felt it necessary to impose a CoC eventually?
Your counter examples are questionable at best.
Your counter examples are questionable at best.
Anyway, regarding Richard Stallman and those accusations of “various kinds of sexual misconduct”:
The article you shared also fails to defend many of the accusations against Stallman and completely ignores them, for example the "Emacs virgin girl" situation.
Since you seem to have a great interest in this, do have any concrete reference to the “Emacs virgin” situation? I have only a vague recollection that Stallman was referring to anyone who had not used Emacs yet as an “Emacs virgin”, and some people took it as meaning some kind of sex thing.
(Any other references to the “many of the accusations against Stallman” that wasn’t referenced in the linked article would also be interesting to see.)
I don't think this is a fair counter example, he's been accused for expressing personal opinions, on his personal blog.
The accusations led to nothing.
Linus changed his tones just recently, now that he's older and have children, the "previous version" of Linus brought Linux to where it is though.
He's still very harsh when things get highly technical, because he's one of the few people that know at heart what's best for Linux.