@Jeffro - Of course it would mean much. If people stay silent when others are misstreated you in essence support the misstreatment. That is how it has always been. If one want an open warm and welcoming community misstreatment, hatefullness and threats must be dealt with and condemned. Thats just the nature of the game. Like I wrote in a reply. If a group attacks and other people in the name of a company, org etc (unless its supported by the leadership) the company, org must condemn it. Failing to do so shows in best case indifference to how others are treated and worst case could be taken as they support the actions.
People saying what they think should not result in such a hateful response as it did this time.
Personal attacks, listing clients mocking that projects only lasted X months etc.
We have the RWW article as well. Total stupidity.

@David Bisset - Dramatic blog post? For Christs sake. All he wrote was in essence "we wont be using WordPress as our main tool in my company anymore". He even writes that he still likes it and will continue to use it personally. The drama was supplied by others.