This article reminded me of what Valerie Aurora[1] posted & discussed. She called for feminism values, and Lennart is calling for less hate. I get the feeling they are both talking of the same underlying problem.

On a personal note, when GIMP 2.6 first came out, I filled a bug report pointing to the devs that under Windows XP sans SP2, the program would crash on load. Instead of getting a real answer, I got some angry comments about not updating my OS and a ban from the bug tracking system. Some time later, they added Windows XP SP2 as a requirement. I still use GIMP, but whenever I find a bug, I just wait patiently until the next version to see if they have fixed it.

[1] HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8414180

Edit: found the bug report, it was SP2, not SP1 as I first thought. Also fixed some typos.