> “If you reward making a stink with outcomes, then everyone will know that essentially making that kind of show both internally and externally is the way to cause outcomes inside of the EF,” [Bastian Aue] said, according to the lawsuit, which cited a recorded conversation between the pair.

except Fulton did not "make a stink" but only pointed it out, if Bastian Aue wanted to not continue rewarding those who actually make the stink, he should have fired whoever was involved with inserting the offensive memes and imagery into legal documents... this reflects very poorly on the Ethereum Foundation... any small sized team of cryptographers can recreate effective competition in this space, especially aided with LLMs.