This thread is a gift that keeps on giving. It's now officially got better than Dexter season 2 and is just about near catching up to Breaking Bad.
If AD should take anything from it it's probably not so much the hate and the mis-trust (although there is such a thing as getting a hint :) ), it's probably that they're at that point where they really, really need more transparency and clearer comm channels. It takes hundreds of threads and e-mails, public and private, to barely form a very fuzzy picture of what is going on. While small companies and start-ups have to face the problem of client insecurity (as a client can you promise me you will exist in six months?), the large ones would do well to remember they are confusing. Asterix in Rome, Gilliam's Brazil confusing :)
