[whataretensors]

Hey let's all judge each other in the worst possible light by the worst possible allegations.

TPW was a visionary that started a company which revolutionized software development. Maybe some of you weren't around back then, but as a git early adopter github was a god send. And it was written by one of us. A developer who built an open source time library. A man who turned down 300k at a time where that salary was top 1%(still is, I believe).

But feel free to publicly denounce someone based on hearsay. Or you can start on the road of balanced thought and stop filling your head up with propaganda.

[stephenr]

> TPW was a visionary

Regardless of whether this is true - you think “visionaries” should get a free pass for harassing people?

> publicly denounce someone based on hearsay

You know GitHub confirmed that he did harass an employee right? It was just before he resigned because of the aforementioned harassment.

[whataretensors]

Since there was no criminal misconduct, everyone realized their mistakes, admitted them, and changed things to prevent further mistakes. I'm not sure you could ask for more from humans.

So ya, I'll give him a pass on this one. It's not a blanket statement that visionaries should be able to harass people. That's not the argument I'm making.

[jsjohnst]

Not that it matters, but he wasn’t offered $300k salary. He was offered $300k over three years retention bonus, which isn’t as rare back then.