[cjbprime]

Seems disingenuous, since the email talked about "branding on expressjs.com", but what actually happened was moving the github repo out of the independent expressjs organization into strongloop's namespace, which is extremely different. It sounds like TJ doesn't understand what part of this was upsetting.

[tjholowaychuk]

Maybe missed "I understand this won’t clear my name, and that’s not the intention of this post"?

Eran was claiming I mentioned nothing to Douglas at all so I just wanted to put the facts out there. I could have taken the money and run, frankly it's hardly a month's worth of money, not worth all the community BS haha but I wanted to share it with Douglas. I know StrongLoop will do no harm, moving of the repo is completely irrelevant IMO, lots of people will rage and say otherwise but that's my view.

[rlidwka]

Moving the repo is the source of the issue here. From now on every developer will see "hey, this belongs to strongloop now".

It is completely different from Automattic, because they took over almost dead project. I saw socket.io at the moment with months without commits, and it was necessary to do something about it.

It is different from Joyent. I would rather see node under a foundation now, but five years ago Ryan probably couldn't promote it by himself and needed help.

Express.js had three active developers working on a new version already. It had an organization named "expressjs" where all related modules are stored. It didn't need to be transferred anywhere (especially not to a for-profit organization for using the repo as an advertising place).

Even if strongloop guys will manage to avoid doing harm (not sure about that), seeing the company name in the all hyperlinks to github is a harm enough (considering that the company did nothing for it... well... except for the transfer payment...).

[rmgraham]

The blog post states TJ moved it from his personal visionmedia account to strongloop's company org. It was never in the expressjs org.

Because of that, it reads to me like TJ saw it as handing over his personal stake in the project to StrongLoop, which consisted of the domain name and the root repo.