>We respect our developer's need to be individuals, and their open source code contributed under a personal ID represents them and their resume. This was a one off disagreement that should not have gone public as there are internal guidelines to resolve it.

As I've been following this, it really seems like it was just power-tripping work drama that spilled over onto the internet. Dev #1 oversteps their bounds a bit and sends a power-trip email to dev #2 asserting their dominance, dev #2 posts that email for the world to see to call attention to it.