GNOME Foundation is Causing Itself More Embarrassment With Secrecy Than With Full Transparency
It also arouses suspicion and hostility towards Codes of Conduct, which gave rise to 'secret courts' governed by large corporations
One subject we're eager to write about is the latest high-level "departure" (expulsion) from the GNOME Foundation, but the GNOME Foundation has already pissed off many people - GNOME developers included - by refusing to even mention what happened (some details and references in IRC today). In the absence of information, people will speculate, probably causing even more harm to the reputation of GNOME. It operates like a proprietary software company and it is funded by some.
GNOME Foundation is its own worst enemy now; it damages its own credibility and then calls everyone who speculates a "crank" (pardon us, who did you hire as your chief?).
The only educational value of all this drama is, at best, as a cautionary tale. Secret threats seem to be a very GNOME thing - in fact they did that to us, too.
We're intentionally not named anyone here.
Free software giants nowadays behave like IBM and Google, which bribes people to not mention sexual abuses. █