Comment Re:Blackberry can switch (Score 1) 307
About 5-years ago I was telling my friends that Blackberry needed to port their stack to Android and be the "enterprise" version. Instead "tablets are cool"!
I'd say there is logic in not bothering to make the change, it takes effort and brings no value. My experience has been that gendered pronouns are often used in documentation, though usually they use a mix of the two genders.
That said there isn't logic in attempting to revert the commit when another committer merged it (unless the rule was that documentation would use a gendered pronoun). Though I also don't think the tone and content of Joyents post is appropriate either.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.