> In case anyone isn't aware, Brad Fitzpatrick isn't just a google employee he also invented and created memcached.

> And Go's net/http package.

> And LiveJournal.

> And Gearman.

> And OpenID.

Working at Google and having done these things, I don't think he has to worry about it. They weren't comp products either, since he spent his own money on them.

Perhaps it tells you something about how strongly the employee feels about the company's work that he is willing to say something like this in public. For such a big problem, firing the employee won't make it go away.

The (sadly uncommon, but proper) fix for this isn't to silence the employee, but rather to fix the piece of crap you are selling so that it isn't a piece of crap anymore.