…you might think i'm too harsh about kde, but you need to take into account the timeline and the context; the introduction of the very lenient policy, the discussions and their tenor, then locking the discussion, then the very, very disingenuous – to the point of manipulation – nate graham's blog, including his multiple misrepresentations of the comments, then, ultimately, the “recommendation”, from the facto leader/community manager to drop the discussion about ethics unless it fully accommodates the feelings of the promoters of the confabulation machinery.

there needs to be a reason for assuming good faith, something we can call a “trust budget” ; if this trust budget is exhausted, the good faith assumption is not needed.