There are no internal problems other than the fact that people are working on mess more now since there's still easy stuff and that isn't going to change. It's a bunch of made up bullshit. He isn't internal so what would he know. Other mamedevs say when he says people are arguing there, it's basically about 1/10 as big of a situation as he makes it out to be, if that. That is of course unless Haywood is involved, in which case people actually get pissed off because he won't stop until they do as he is mentally ill. The word is that the only time anyone has ever seen Nicola lose his cool is from Haywood pulling this shit, not long before the last time he got kicked off the list for doing this shit there. Do you see a pattern?
Everybody else just works on a driver and submits their changes, or blogs about it with the blog entry pertaining to programming or whatever. But not Haywood. Nope, he can't even add a game to MAME anymore without smearing shit all over it. You want to talk childish, how about refusing to add a game to the source everybody else uses and saying he'll submit it only after some merger he wants happens, how about getting kicked off more message boards and mailing lists than anyone else on the internet. Yeah, it's everybody else's fault, right? Wake up.