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The commit itself, and the events around that were already discussed on another thread, but about this blog posting specifically - this is a little extreme.

I would have hoped at this point, an official posting, on the corporate pages would have a more sensible and calming approach. I guess not.

All in all, no one comes out of this looking well.

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Not so sure about that. I had no opinion about Joyent before but now they sound quite positive in my book.

OTOH, I had no opinion about Joyent before, and now have a lower'ish opinion of them. This seems like a combination of over-reaction, obsessive "PC" thinking, and an attempt to mask a potential PR gaffe.

If Joyent cares so much about gender equality, I imagine that there are more concrete actions they could take to encourage that, than threatening to fire somebody who isn't even an employee - over a pronoun.

It's not the pronoun, it's the bad attitude and commit reversal.

Calling people asshole and "firing" them instead of initiating a discussion is also bad attitude.

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