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Should Michael Novati remain a moderator of this subreddit?

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u/L4ShinyBidoof wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Your argument is based on contradictions. you generalize about your group to fit your narrative while being highly selective with the other. The term "open source" has an objective definition based on its license. Factors like corporate funding or specific commit patterns are ir

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I can’t comment specifically on the items mentioned in the blog post or video because I’m following legal advice. What I can say is that anyone interested should review the original source material directly in its entirely (which I understand is a lot) to understand the context. One of the comments referenced had its original context deleted, making it impossible to know what I was responding to. The other referred to a discussion about the Future Code program, which is funded by the City of New York for residents earning under $50,000 a year with no computer science degree or prior developer experience. My intent was to highlight the importance of graduates accurately representing their backgrounds rather than presenting themselves as having prior work experience, as that was a critical, verified requirement of getting into the program.