Harald Welte (co-creator netfilter/iptable and free software foundation awarded developer) published his open letter as public take about recently events in the Linux Kernel Developer Community around

TLDR;

It literally hurts me personally to see this happening. It's like a kick in the gut. I used to be proud about having had an involvement with the Linux kernel community in a previous life. This doesn't feel like the community I remember being part of.