Then someone would have been able to explain objectively why his solution was less good. It wouldn't have been this wishy washy political struggle that only hur

Then someone would have been able to explain objectively why his solution was less good. It wouldn't have been this wishy washy political struggle that only hurts the department and technology. I'd prefer to lose a job that was caught up in such a scuffle. (Of course, I say that in times when a job can be got).