Ben Noordhuis's Departure
For those who don't know what's going on: Joyent made a blogpost calling Ben, (one of _THE_ most prolific contributors to nodjs), an asshole (<a href="http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun" rel="nofollow">http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun</a>) and said they'd fire him if he'd been working for them, because he refused to take a commit making language in some part of the code gender-neutral. 
Here's Ben's last response to the whole ordeal: <a href="https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568172" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...</a><p>A lot of people speculated that this is part of a dance Joyent is doing to assert itself as a big cloud player. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but as a general spectator I feel like wanting to remark that Bryan Cantrill only fanned the fire here in all of this. And so perhaps there should be some weight given to the fact that a worker of a company that's a competitor to Joyent just quit, arguably due to Joyent's rough play -- if Joyent had approached the matter differently, carefully, sensitively, there likely would have been a different conclusion to this. But now it's done, and pretty much every participating party in this whole thing came out looking like a loser, Joycent, Strongloop, the whole nodejs scene. Here's hoping Ben now finds a workplace that appreciates him for his talents and respects him as a person.