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Yes. Joyent directed public wrath at an individual, over a political issue, who was a key employee of a competitor. This employee then left the community. Then, a day or two after, Joyent launched a competing offering IIRC. The Node project blog then essentially told the Node community to stop talking about the issue out of "respect", with no plea for the exiled individual to return to the community. Isaac was a key individual involved in this drama, defending the purge by claiming he'd received an abusive email from the exiled employee.