so, your claim is the board would have tpm leave while saying, "Our investigation found the allegations to be completely unfounded. On an unrelated note, Tom is leaving to spend more time with his family." That right there is basically an admission of guilt.
My (yes, speculation; was the first line not clear enough?) was that Tom + wife did something relatively close to the claim, and therefore Tom needed to leave. This is an excuse for him to leave -- maybe the only one around -- that doesn't open github to further liability.
@abalone: one more time:
if the board where to say "found nothing" and tom 'quit', it's an admission of guilt. The board instead is saying "found nothing, but oh, here's some minor misconduct so now tom is leaving", ie not an admission of guilt with respect to Julie's allegations. Thus my guess is that Tom leaving over some charity incident is a way to (1) get tom + wife away from github without (2) either explicitly ("yup, Tom did just what she said") or implicitly ("Tom didn't do a damn thing but oh, he just up and left") admitting guilt
Earlier you said "this is an excuse... to get Tom + wife the hell away from github without admitting guilt".
Now you are contradictorily saying their statement "is basically an admission of guilt".
So we agree on that. Therefore, I'm saying admitting guilt like that would not be the right move for a cynical board that just wants to minimize legal liability. Most likely the dismissal was due to other related issues that came up in the investigation concerning his handling of the situation. There's plenty potential scandal within that to be cynical about, it just doesn't support the notion that Horvath's charges about sexism necessarily have any merit.
My (yes, speculation; was the first line not clear enough?) was that Tom + wife did something relatively close to the claim, and therefore Tom needed to leave. This is an excuse for him to leave -- maybe the only one around -- that doesn't open github to further liability.
@abalone: one more time:
if the board where to say "found nothing" and tom 'quit', it's an admission of guilt. The board instead is saying "found nothing, but oh, here's some minor misconduct so now tom is leaving", ie not an admission of guilt with respect to Julie's allegations. Thus my guess is that Tom leaving over some charity incident is a way to (1) get tom + wife away from github without (2) either explicitly ("yup, Tom did just what she said") or implicitly ("Tom didn't do a damn thing but oh, he just up and left") admitting guilt