> I can't even imagine how he's feeling these days.
None of this is his problem or fault. I see no reason he should feel anything about this. Keeping everyone safe was never his job. He wrote code and gave it away for free. That should be enough.
> I see no reason he should feel anything about this.
Absolutely agree, but from the sounds of the emails at least, he was going through a bad time then, and nobody feels good when they realise they were taken advantage of.
This is exactly the problem in the first place, lack of support for maintainers.
OP themselves say "I will only minimally maintain this fork". Okay, but it's so easy in hindsight to criticize what has happened.
> Hopefully Lasse Collin will consider these possibilities and address them in his response to the attack.
I can't even imagine how he's feeling these days.