Re: [Fwd: Resignation from GNOME Foundation Membership Committee]

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

    > On a personal note I'm also resigning because I don't enjoy waking up to a
    > mailbox full of rubbish asking me on what basis am I qualified to make
    > decisions, why I hate some community member or other, why I'm part of the
    > gnome foundation when I can't write code, and other less polite things...

There may be no use responding to the ones that are mere name-calling.
But if somoene asks why you hate so-and-so, it is often useful to
respond "I don't hate him."  If you can avoid putting anger into the
response, you can calm down a person who is angry.