<story><title>Node.js and the Road Ahead</title><url>http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/16/nodejs-road-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t like that Joyent basically &amp;#x27;owns&amp;#x27; nodejs. They gain from more people using nodejs and using it in a certain way; the complex dynamic happening here is a major turn-off (Joyent controls the nodejs repo). Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor. Do you really want to use the products of this environment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>Guys, guys, come on.  We should respect their wishes to never talk about that again and forget the whole thing ever happened.[1]&lt;p&gt;I mean, it&amp;#x27;s not like they ought to apologize for the atrocious way they facilitated the virtual lynching of one of their core contributors.  Better to just sweep it all under the rug.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/12/03/bnoordhuis-departure/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.nodejs.org&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;bnoordhuis-departure&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For the folks that say it&amp;#x27;s just &amp;quot;petty drama&amp;quot;, I invite you to read another man&amp;#x27;s account of a very similar experience: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/6/5075106/adam-orth-xbox-one-gdc-next&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.polygon.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;6&amp;#x2F;5075106&amp;#x2F;adam-orth-xbox-one-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Internet bullying isn&amp;#x27;t just some thing that happens to teenagers.  It&amp;#x27;s a stream of tweets, phone calls, texts, hate mail, death threats, and more.  I can only speculate about how much of that Ben received, but a fair share of it was very public, and Joyent was a participant in that.&lt;p&gt;As the face of node.js it was Joyent&amp;#x27;s responsibility to defuse the situation and protect the people involved.  Instead they threw gasoline into the fire, further inciting the mob justice that was already well underway.</text></comment>
<story><title>Node.js and the Road Ahead</title><url>http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/16/nodejs-road-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t like that Joyent basically &amp;#x27;owns&amp;#x27; nodejs. They gain from more people using nodejs and using it in a certain way; the complex dynamic happening here is a major turn-off (Joyent controls the nodejs repo). Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor. Do you really want to use the products of this environment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveslash</author><text>&amp;quot; Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Who was that?</text></comment>