On the sickness of our community

The general comment I have about FOSS compared to the larger software industry is that harassment and or just plain taunting are -in my own anecdotal personal experience- more prevalent within FOSS than within 'proprietary' software companies. So I don't quite agree with our esteemed editor that there are aren't deep problems within the FOSS community to start with.

The fact that there are relatively less women working as software engineers in FOSS jobs than 'proprietary software' jobs seems to corroborate the conclusions of my anecdotal experience.