Erik and his rant and the emotional charge that he touched is a real phenomenon about which many hackers feel strongly. I agree that a practical discussion is how to work together in a business, but dismissing or discrediting the discussion with an anecdotal counter example doesn't add or address any new ideas.

And I agree that there are many generalizations, and I purposely avoided hedging language to pad them. They do not apply to everyone in all cases, which is why they are generalizations. If you could argue that these generalizations are false or that it is false that they are widely held ---that could be interesting.