I think some of the vitriol hurled was over the top, especially given that folks can just fork the project and move on -- isn't that the whole point of OSS? If it were a closed source product it wouldn't have even necessitated much of an announcement. Disregarding the specifics of who worked on this, I think this sort of reaction can only be discouraging to OSS maintainers as a whole (much as I agree that the change wasn't handled great).
