When a leader departs from a community like this, a reasonable explanation helps answer the most basic questions that are on everyone's minds, while setting expectations of privacy in what they chose not to share. We should respect that and appreciate Marak's willingness to share personal details for the sake of greater clarity. Dramatic or not, none of us knows unless we know the whole story, which Marak chose not to share.
Consider reaching out to Marak privately to encourage him in what is obviously a less than ideal situation. Otherwise, let's do as Mikeal suggests. Cheers, Adam Crabtree On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Micheil Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > Really, that was just me getting a wee bit annoyed at the idea of the > whole dramatisation > here. If a company fires you, they either had a reason to, or, you have a > lawsuit you can > probably press, if you really want to. > > No need to make a big noise about it and try to paint them out as evil or > wrong or whatever, > it's fine though if someone asks that you're honest about it, but do we > really need to > discussion or even here about Marak's firing on the Node.js mailing list? > As far as I'm > concerned, not really, no. > > – Micheil > > > On 12/09/2012, at 6:43 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > > > 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 > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > >>> Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> Groups "nodejs" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> [email protected] > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > >> > >> -- > >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > >> Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "nodejs" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. 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