GNOME ponders its code of conduct

While that's a nice polemical effort to turn the discussion away from the
issue and onto a free-form attack on me personally, it makes little sense,
at least unless Philip van Hoof, who was the first (but far from the last) to
raise objections to RMS' "suggestions", is also part of this conspiracy you
feel you see.

In any case, your use of the term "jihad" is both accurate and inappropriate
here. I'm sure any Muslim readers will be kind enough to attribute your
(mis)use of it in this context to ignorance rather than bigotry, as do I.

This is not about Richard Stallman, except insofar as he's the one who's
attempted to impose his version of "approved group think" on Planet
GNOME; I'd have been equally averse to such a suggestion no matter from
whom it came. I'm in favor of freedom of expression, and dislike attempts
to exercise prior restraint on me or on the other contributors to the Planet.

Again, I'm far from unique in this reaction.

(Aren't we overdue for a revision of Godwin's Law...?)