If you're talking about TJ I don't think anyone said he was "evil" or "dickish". The selling of a repo on Github is questionable however it is no more questionable than Ryan selling NodeJS to Joyent. But frankly nobody really believes IBM gives a damn about Express, so people should move on and use something else, because it ain't gona be maintained seriously . For them Express is just PR for their platform Blue mix as they try to attract businesses based on NodeJS.