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Joyent is looking worse and worse as the dust settles.

Ben: "If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else."

After this all-smoke-no-flame shitstorm, one big company carrying out a character assassination and publicly wishing they could fire him and his current employer dangling a Damocles' sword over his job...I really can't blame him.

"To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey, if it gets us scores of female contributors, who am I to object?"

I sense some subtle irony in that statement.

"To the people that felt it necessary to call me a misogynist: I volunteer in a mentorship program that gets young people - especially young women - involved in technology. How many of you go out and actively try to increase the number of women in the field?"

This is sort of like the "but my best friend is black" defense, but in this case I think it demonstrates that defense is not always invalid.