> Would you buy software from a company that by de-facto policy did not hire Black people? Maybe not. Someone from another part of the world might consider that

> Would you buy software from a company that by de-facto policy did not hire Black people? Maybe not. Someone from another part of the world might consider that to be 'stupid' or 'irrelevant to the situation', because of a lack of understanding of the context (i.e. maybe it's a very segregated part of the world and such weird policies are reciprocated) See, you might have inadvertently illustrated exactly what was ridiculous about this, and with my anecdote, I was just trying to show how reassuring it was to see that despite what views the technical people I had been working with had on the middle-east, they didn't do the shortcut between the nationality of the company, and the foreign policy of the country.