> It's very easy to lie about projects and to have some friends back you up - verifying all this takes time. If I were presented with a candidate (already some

> It's very easy to lie about projects and to have some friends back you up - verifying all this takes time. If I were presented with a candidate (already somehwhat vetted) who claimed authorship of an open source project, I would definitely take a look at it, and then ask them detailed questions about it in the interview. If they hadn't actually written it, I don't think they could fool me for very long.