Oh lord… Where do we start. Theres gotta be a dozen summaries in a dozen threads about this. I’ll try and find the best one for you.
Evidence:
Tldr, we all called user changeable (variable) escs vescs for forever. Benjamin Vedder was hired on by Frank/Trampa and Frank started dishing out the cease and desists for anyone calling them vescs. Stewii from the thread I linked was the most prominent source of this asshattery. One dude made some awesome little escs and was met with such a huge fight that it stifled the innovation.
Frank defending his rights of solo vesc usage:
Frank demanding old vesc versions not be stored here and only in vesc software:
Lots of other examples but to summarize, Frank is not friend for future esk8 development.