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If they take 29 days to respond to this, I wonder how long they might take to respond to the fairly shocking allegations within the recent Business Insider arti
by lhnz 11y ago
If they take 29 days to respond to this, I wonder how long they might take to respond to the fairly shocking allegations within the recent Business Insider article [0]?
In fact I wonder if this response was ever going to happen on its own? Perhaps the cause of the response was their recent string of bad press - dear github, business insider, eslint, etc.
It strikes me as strange that a company that has so many people focused on community and social impact doesn't have time to talk to its users.
I hope they manage to sort themselves out as it's getting embarrassing.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
- zzleeper 11y agoMaybe the overhauling meant they had no resources to respond? i.e. everyone was busy hiring?
- the_mitsuhiko 11y agoWhy do they have to respond at all to that article? I fail to see how that article is relevant for anyone who has projects on GitHub.
- lhnz 11y agoThey're not being forced into responding. But it was unsettling to hear an anonymous source say they were avoiding interviews on racial grounds. That sounds illegal if it's true - and even if it's not true, surely it's something you should be open about? People care about fairness.