Unless there was something going on in the private message world, there were no vicious attacks in the threads themselves. Dude needs to get a thicker skin. I agree that releasing personal information is over the line, and those responsible should be punished.

My heated discussion with walt526 was due to the fact he posted a comment explicitly saying that he was an Entourage employee, and thus it appeared that he was acting unethically by not disclosing that before posting. As I haven't yet learned how to read minds, you can't really blame me for not knowing it was a typo, and I made two specific mentions of his purported employer over the span of two hours before he corrected it.

And you were asking for trouble by comparing developers asking for GPL-based source code to whiny toddlers. Don't expect people to be civil when you pull something like that.