I don’t really get why it’s considered necessary to lie about your affiliations like this. Yes, having a degree from a fancy school is great for prestige and can help to open doors more easily and provides connections. That said, the open source – and tech community at large greatly values action over fluff. Just having a fancy degree from a fancy school doesn’t mean you’re actually any good outside of the world of academia. I can’t tell you how many CS graduates from big name schools I’ve interviewed or worked with who I could never see as having a future in the industry.
The Arduino project for all of its flaws and controversies has been a boon to the maker world and electronic hobbyist community. Why should one feel it necessary to lie about their academic history at this point? What is there to prove?
