This is sort of like almost being hit by a car and thinking, "Well I didn't get hit. I don't need to pay more attention when crossing the street." Also, Rod had to fight tooth and nail to keep his position. Things could have easily gone the other way.

But here's an example of a code of conduct/ethics being enforced unfairly. Douglas Crockford was removed as keynote speaker from the Nodevember conference.[1] Apparently because some people thought he violated the conference's code of ethics. Summaries of the whole kerfuffle can be found here.[2][3]

1. https://twitter.com/nodevember/status/771520648191483904 2. https://paulstraw.svbtle.com/crockford 3. https://medium.com/the-mission/pr-nightmares-when-political-...

"Sure, we dragged you through a three month trial and held you in jail, but you were declared innocent! What are you all stuffed up about? The system worked!"

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

How much energy went into not having him get evicted? The CoCs invite witch hunts and time wasting.

Indeed, now everyone can contribute to the kernel.

This makes the assumption this delivers more value to the kernel code base; to be proven.

Sorry, I meant for that to be sarcastic.

Sorry, I didn’t pick up on it.