Interesting point. The plot thickens further, to the point where in one day I've gone from respecting Joyent (for their support of node contributors and thus node itself) to; I really fucking dislike this company, their people and the way they think. Equating lack of empathy (as quoted by your parent) to technical incompetence is just mind bogglingly infuriating.

This politically correct at all costs way of thinking needs to be bludgeoned to death.