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Authorial credit conveniently withheld.

Also, something about this story doesn't make sense: if she was spreading "vicious rumors" about a co-founder, why wouldn't she just have been fired immediately and escorted out of the building? That's what probably would have happened in most other companies.

And if the allegations in this story are true, why wouldn't they have surfaced when the story first came out?

You make a good point, but bear in mind that Horvath is the first person to leave GitHub, and for this reason alone GitHub definitely isn't "most other companies". I find it credible that, even in the face of such alleged terrible accusations, GitHub would try to work things out with Horvath instead of just firing her.

I think you mean, strategically.

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