This is obviously a pretty slanted article. I don't understand how it could be put in a major newspaper without any sort of editorial review. What's worse is the author knows it is contentious as she mentions several other situations where a CoC was abused, but only the minor parts that support her case. The node example goes directly against what she is arguing as it was a review counsel, who are not really involved in the development of the product, trying to remove the technical lead mainly because he said there shouldn't be a CoC (which kind of removes the reason for the counsel, hmm... wonder why they didn't like him) through a hidden backroom process where the person has no chance to defend themselves. What was even worse is several members of that group weren't exactly being very inclusive, making all sorts of comments above developers against the CoC were just sweaty white men living in their parent's basements. When complaints against them were filed the complaints just disappeared. That is the real reason the CoCs are so hated. It isn't to support tolerance, but to allow non-programmer political activist to bend the project to where they want it to go. It is essentially a tojan horse for a hostile take over.

Personally, i don't equate professionalism with "nice". Nice is just a pc term for passive aggressive. To me at least, professionalism means not making or taking things personally. I've seen too many people that get offended when someone questions their ideas and treats it as a personal attack. Being nice seeks to avoid upsetting those people, not being professional. On the contrary, if you are professional you must confront those ideas to ensure the best solution is reached.

It is letting "nice" companies redefine the term prodessionalism to twist it into being what they want to make you look foolish by arguing against that we really need to stop.

Is nice, as being able to view definitions is one leg up on notepad++ (unless I am unaware of that feature there). However I noticed in the license that the data collection can not be opted out of for this pre-release version. That's pretty disappointing.