It is beyond foolish to speculate about why someone was fired from an 
announcement like this.

I suggest you ask Marak or someone else at nodejitsu you know personally why 
this happened if you find it necessary to gossip.

-Mikeal

On Sep 12, 2012, at September 12, 201210:41 AM, Micheil Smith 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Wasn't wanting to add into this, but reading between the lines it reads as if 
> there 
> was a conflict of interest, Marak was developing something open-source that 
> was 
> seen as a potential competitor to the closed-source product he was being paid 
> to 
> work on.
> 
> Which, if he wished to not stop work on that potential competitor, then sure, 
> sounds 
> fine to dismiss him from the position he held at the company.
> 
> And then, all that aside, I can understand being angry at a company, but the 
> tone 
> of that email was way off. Sure, if people ask you directly as to why, you 
> can say 
> something to them about it, but no need to make a massive show out of it.
> 
> – Micheil
> 
> On 12/09/2012, at 4:54 PM, Jeff Barczewski wrote:
> 
>> Yes, it would be beneficial for both sides to communicate a summary of what 
>> transpired to get to this point, rather than leaving this nebulous cloud 
>> over everything.
>> 
>> 
>> Marak, have you looked into those companies that were trying to hire Node 
>> developers? (If moving is an option, then NodeUp sponsors like Clock and 
>> Bislr are a few that come to mind)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday, 12 September 2012 10:43:15 UTC-5, Zeus wrote:
>> So what was Nodejitsu's reasoning in all this? Your tone make it seem you 
>> feel that they fired you unjustly. 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Zeus
>> 
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