I appreciate his attitude about this - he doesn't come across as bitchy at all (at least not to me). He's essentially saying "you choose not to run the project a certain way, and that's fine, but therefore I can no longer afford to run mine at all, and that's the consequence".
Thank you, TallGuyShort :). i think i did come across as a bit bitchy, but i tried to stay on topic and removed lots of stuff i wrote simply out of primal frustration :/. i'm only human ;). i thought about it for a couple months before writing it, and spent a couple days rewriting it, to make sure i wasn't just sending flame bait.