When no one obeyed, the same "some" people threatened to wipe Maemo's infrastructure from hard disks, and started to demand real-life money for their "services". Board decided to move infrastructure somewhere else (free and responsible hosting), which said "some" people took as coup. The above pretty much sums up the reasons of current joerg vs. the whole world conflict. Just replace "some people" with joerg
who have legal responsibility, can't be "cashier only"