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That was my first thought too. But this seems too far after that incident for it to be the cause.
by eridius 12y ago
That was my first thought too. But this seems too far after that incident for it to be the cause.
- chuhnk 12y agoNo. It's a great way to separate one's involvement from the issue. Things like this happen all the time and you don't hear about it because it's treated exactly like this. CEOs are displaced at the top level in a way that makes it look like a natural next step.
- eridius 12y agoIf the intent was to make it look like a natural next step, he wouldn't be writing a blog post about how he was fired. If he really was fired for that incident, I'd much prefer GitHub to be open about it and make it clear that was why.
- minimaxir 12y agoThe investigation into the claims was performed and completed in April 2014. https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investigation https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investiga... I don't believe it would take a year to fire someone.
- astrodust 12y agoThere's always the job security factor.