Normal Behavior vs. Our Higher Standards

Having learned from bitter experience in another community.... There is only so much tolerance one should show to those members of a community who have disdain for its norms, and who keep pushing at its boundaries.

Also, with regard to Cisco, it is notorious for fostering a cut-throat, aggressive, internal corporate culture (through banded stack-and-yank that pits colleagues against each other). They're notorious for competing aggressively. They're notorious for aggressive politics at standards bodies. I've observed ex-Cisco employees being much more aggressively political when participating in open-source communities than was otherwise the norm.

Aggression is a feature of that company, and those who come out of it, it seems to me.