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by matheusmoreira 2453 days ago
> (Is 'fired' an appropriate word to use, when Monica wasn't an employee?)

Ben Noordhuis wasn't an employee of Joyent either but that didn't stop them from symbolically firing him:

> While we would fire Ben over this, node.js is an open source project and one doesn't necessarily have the same levers.

https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun