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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 02:48:26PM -0500, Stephen Cook wrote:
> The problem with the Foundation sponsoring a CoC is that a small group
> of extremists forced their way in to generate and implement their own
> set of rules, secretly.

This is exactly not what happened.

> I suspect from the lack of response to my earlier question that I
> accidentally paid for this when I thought I was donating to help develop
> an OS.

An alternate explanation is that people are tired of going through every
sentence of every post about this, word by word, and trying to respond
in a way that cannot possibly be misconstrued.

tl:dr; your conclusion is wrong.

I myself have neither the time nor motivation to respond to every single
message on this subject; it's demotivating.  I suspect most of the posters
have already made up their minds, in any case.

mcl